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were topping

  • past progressive
    of top.
    top
    noun
    the highest or loftiest point or part of anything on a slope; apex; summit.

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Boyington told Weinberg, "Shooters don't make no money. I left because I don't even think we were topping $500 a day."

From Salon ● May 13, 2022

Economic growth estimates for the October-December quarter were topping a 7.0% annualized rate before the retail sales data.

From Reuters ● Jan. 14, 2022

Several more states were topping 90% of their total 2016 vote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2020

When Kazuo Ishiguro took the most recent prize in 2017, Thiong’o and Murakami were topping the odds – as they were when Bob Dylan won in 2016.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 10, 2019

They were topping a slight rise at the instant he glanced back, and were at least a mile behind his pursuer.

From 'Firebrand' Trevison by P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman) Ivory