surpassed; surpassing; surpasses
1
: to become better, greater, or stronger than : exceed
surpassed her rivals
surpassed all expectations
2
: to go beyond : overstep
3
: to transcend the reach, capacity, or powers of
a beauty that surpasses description
Examples of surpass in a Sentence
Attendance is expected to surpass last year's record.
Last quarter, sales surpassed two million.
His work regularly surpasses all expectations.
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Russian Attacks on Ukraine and War Developments Late on July 3 and into the early hours of July 4, Russia battered Ukraine with more than 500 drones and missiles in the most intense aerial attack of the war, surpassing the previous record set just days earlier on June 29.
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Katya Soldak, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Several family members of former MLB relief pitcher Tyler Walker remain missing on Tuesday as the death toll surpassed 100 following the devastating flooding that took place in central Texas over the Fourth of July weekend.
—Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 8 July 2025
The death toll from flooding in Texas surpassed 100 on Monday, as officials faced scrutiny over the adequacy of local warning systems.
—semafor.com, 8 July 2025
But the scale of the Hill Country disaster places it among the most lethal in modern American history—surpassing the death tolls of Hurricane Harvey in 2017 and rivaling the devastation of the 1927 Mississippi River flood and the 1937 Ohio River flood.
—Hannah Parry
amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
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Katya Soldak, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Several family members of former MLB relief pitcher Tyler Walker remain missing on Tuesday as the death toll surpassed 100 following the devastating flooding that took place in central Texas over the Fourth of July weekend.
—Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 8 July 2025
The death toll from flooding in Texas surpassed 100 on Monday, as officials faced scrutiny over the adequacy of local warning systems.
—semafor.com, 8 July 2025
But the scale of the Hill Country disaster places it among the most lethal in modern American history—surpassing the death tolls of Hurricane Harvey in 2017 and rivaling the devastation of the 1927 Mississippi River flood and the 1937 Ohio River flood.
—Hannah Parry
amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
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“Surpass.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surpass. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.
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