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ser mown tid

  • v  get on top of; deal with successfully
  • v  be on top of
    The scarf surmounted the gown
  • v  reach the highest point of
  • v  be or do something to a greater degree
  • a  having something on top
    columns surmounted by statues

  • Getting close to Capa himself could also be a tricky business, though the challenge was usually surmounted by soldiers, poker players, bartenders, writers, artists and beautiful .
  • Barns and trees can be surmounted with more vigorous leaps, usually requiring a light second push-up with the tip of the toe on the barn's roof or on the tree's outlying branches.
  • It is surmounted by an escapement in the form of a monstrous grasshopper that devours each second as it passes.
News & Articles

  • What Investors Should Really Fear — and What They Shouldn’t
    A first step in treating post-traumatic stress disorder is to compile a “hierarchy of fears” to be surmounted, from the least scary to most terrifying. Investors have undergone their share of financial trauma over the past five years, and remain … Continue reading ?
    June 11, 2013 - Michael Santoli via Yahoo! Finance
  • Grads' stories inspiring
    Both of these young ladies surmounted great difficulties in achieving their goal of graduating from high school.
    June 11, 2013 - The Augusta Chronicle
Quotes

  • Rick Sturckow in Houston Chronicle
    It's just great to be back on planet Earth,Atlantis skipper Frederick "Rick" Sturckow said after stepping to the runway. "There were a lot of challenges on this mission and they were all surmounted."
  • Bernie Bickerstaff in SI.com
    I think his focus is getting better. I think he's somewhat surmounted the wall,Charlotte coach Bernie Bickerstaff said. "He's putting in the extra time, and I think the operative word is that he's a rookie."
  • Bruno Senna in Telegraph.co.uk
    The bier was of solid gold, studded with precious stones, and hand a cover of purple, embroidered with various colors; on this lay the body enveloped in a purple robe, a diadem encircling the head and surmounted by a crown of gold, the scepter... Josephus Flavius http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFK3EJQi1BGcxNg6gqH46Uw6ffMqw USA Today http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2007-05-08-herod-tomb_N.htm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEkySIEveU44spJkXucOETowbIcTA May 8, 2007 96882 128492 surname I hope, in a short time, that everybody remembers me for being Bruno, myself, and not for my uncle's surname," said Senna, nephew of three-time world champion Ayrton, during his official presentation as a Campos driver in Murcia, Spain....

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