overtaking
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- n going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it
- v catch up with and possibly overtake
- v travel past
- v overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
- There's a niceness campaign overtaking corporate America.
- Barbery thinks her book has enjoyed such universal success because people everywhere are worried about superficiality overtaking substance in their lives.
- His elevation to the leadership resulted in Labor immediately overtaking the Liberal-National Coalition government in opinion polls a lead it hasn't relinquished since.