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are overtaking
verb
To pass a more slowly moving object.
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The incrementalists are overtaking the rescuers.
"The English are overtaking us left, right and centre.
They are overtaking men in the work force, but still do most housework.
"The English are overtaking us, left and right," warned Bayern's CEO, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.
If you grow up, you turn into Debbie — you fear that the years are overtaking you fast.
Just as mobile phones are overtaking wired phones, mobile computers will overtake desktop computers for all but specialized tasks.
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When wonder and imagination are overtaken by what went down.
China is overtaking us.
A kind of despair was overtaking him.
The twentieth century was overtaking him.
Its e-commerce market is overtaking America's.
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