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been overtaken
verb
To pass a more slowly moving object.
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"They have been overtaken by events".
In some it has been overtaken.
But it has quickly been overtaken.
Now it has been overtaken by events.
Time Warner Cable has been overtaken by bratty teenagers!
These proposals have been overtaken by events.
Kessab has since been overtaken by the rebels.
But that doesn't mean that the iPhones have been overtaken.
Such memories have been overtaken, though, by others.
Or that women's labor-force participation has been overtaken?
But such forecasts have been overtaken by events.
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