surmount
verb (used with object)
to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over.
will surmount
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future tenseof surmount.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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That’s because a gain of 9.1 percent is a high hurdle and, in any given month, it’s unlikely that the market will surmount it.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
But it is unclear how the space agency will surmount some formidable technical, political and financial challenges to pull off a lunar landing in just four and a half years.
From Nature ● Jul. 7, 2019
They will surmount it, that’s how it goes.”
From The Guardian ● Mar. 7, 2018
Although it’s impossible to know which technology will surmount silicon—and there’s good reason to believe it will be a combination of technologies rather than any one breakthrough—we can take a look at the contenders.
From Scientific American ● May 2, 2015
To climb a steeple, foretells that you will have serious difficulties, but will surmount them.
From Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Gustavus Hindman Miller
