'overtake expectations' is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to refer to the idea that something has surpassed what was expected or anticipated. For example, "His performance in the competition overtook expectations and he won first place".
If print wants to perform a cashectomy on users, it should probably look to what happened with music, an industry in which people once paid handsomely for records, then tapes, then CDs, that was overtaken by the expectation that the same product should be free.
"When expectation overtakes reality, reality eventually wins.
2016 began with a flurry of bank M&A activity that decelerated somewhat as fears of Brexit and an overall slowdown in global growth overtook the financial markets and dampened expectations of a near-term interest rate increase.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's nineteenth birthday marked the year that he would allow his expectation of violence to overtake him.
The Secretary, under criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike, acknowledged that expectations for actions to resuscitate the markets overtook the scope of the administration's plans.
Expectations are raised and frustrated, opposition becomes entrenched, and events overtake the original idea.
The Standard Bank predicted on October 17th that it will overtake South Africa's by 2015 as Africa's largest.All the same, the high expectations that came with the president's re-election may not be met.
The expectation is that Nokia's smartphone sales will fall further in the third quarter of the year, when Apple could overtake it to rank second behind Samsung in the sector, which is rapidly growing within the overall mobile phone market.
The oil workers of Baku and Grozny and their children are shown celebrating how oil production has fulfilled the expectations of the First Five-Year plan in two and a half years and is on track to overtake production levels from capitalist countries.
Yes! Could we overtake it?
