Example Sentences

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Community Transit said less than 2% of weekday trips were surpassing its limits.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 23, 2020

Their Value of Design report aimed to nudge the capital markets to invest in design-infused companies as they were surpassing traditional firms with an average of 220 per cent return on their share price value.

From Salon • Nov. 25, 2018

In 1965 celebrated auto writer Ken Purdy broke many sports-car fans’ hearts by opining that automatic transmissions were surpassing stick shifts and would soon push them into obsolescence.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2018

But that didn't explain why homicides were surpassing original levels.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2010

Soon they were surpassing what the Hitts had achieved.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield