(v. t.) To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel.
Example Sentences:
(1) They argue that the US, the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases per capita (China recently surpassed us in sheer volume), needs to lead the fight to limit carbon emissions, rather continuing to block global treaties as it has done in the past.
(2) Thereafter, donor type cells expressed an intermediate Thy 1.2 brightness; this population then persisted and surpassed the other subsets.
(3) Funding for Title X declined during the 1980s and is now surpassed by Medicaid as the largest source of family planning dollars.
(4) Results demonstrated that community clients surpassed institutional clients in social and cognitive skills, but not in daily living skills.
(5) Studies show that professionals often fail to reach reliable or valid conclusions and that the accuracy of their judgements does not necessarily surpass that of laypersons, thus raising substantial doubt that psychologists or psychiatrists meet legal standards for expertise.
(6) Liberia, Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Niger have already reached or surpassed the MDG target.
(7) Some 59.29 % had opposed the remuneration report, a rebellion only exceeded by one at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) at the height of the banking crisis, and surpassing the 59% that voted against the £6.8m pay deal for Sir Martin Sorrell at his advertising company WPP in 2012.
(8) The hyperglycaemic response to nickel of female rats was more marked than that of males, with an increase in intracellular glucose, more marked during pregnancy, which even surpassed the plasma concentration of glucose.
(9) Their hearty laughter far surpassed any private hopes of entertaining this endearingly stodgy bunch.
(10) In hepatitis B patients no coincidence of the results has been observed: the count of theophylline-sensitive E-RFC on conversion to the total E-RFC count surpassed the count of T gamma-cells.
(11) The results surpassed all expectations and the change process has instilled a new sense of pride among nurses at the hospital and sparked the development of training sessions for other nurses in the region.
(12) More than 50% of excessively subnormal motility indexes improved to a level approaching or surpassing normal, making motility the single most significant aspect of the effects of ligation on semen quality.
(13) The men and women between them can now boast four medals at this Games, surpassing their targets (they had hoped for one or two), not to mention the British women's best placing in 84 years in the team final.
(14) It is suggested that though competition with the maternal-nurturant rival may be worked through, often there is incomplete resolution of the surpassing and separation from the protective, loving, but dominant oedipal father, thus limiting true professional autonomy.
(15) Although there are several complications, myocutaneous (MC) island flap surpassed the deltopectoral (DP) flap in the reconstruction of the pharyngo-esophagus, tongue, oral cavity, mandible, and of a massive defect.
(16) What an inspiration: teaching us all to embrace life, look after each other, and have love and compassion no matter what May 14, 2014 Comedian Jason Manford, who championed Stephen's cause and helped him surpass his fundraising goal, released a statement on Wednesday afternoon: Guardian readers have also added their tributes in the comments of the article about his death, with one reflecting on the way Stephen mastered social media in order to raise money for charity and document his story.
(17) When continued success was not forthcoming, and as later-maturing peers caught up to and surpassed his athletic accomplishments, the student sought to protect his sense of self-esteem by rationalizing that his lack of success was due to a physical problem.
(18) Two main arguments have stimulated the development of hydrogel and silicone lenses: flexibility allows folding and thus insertion through a small incision, and inertness promises excellent biocompatibility, possibly surpassing that of PMMA.
(19) This prompted Cameron to warn that the danger posed by Islamic State (Isis) extremists presented the biggest security threat of modern times, surpassing that of al-Qaida.
(20) Against vincristine, the cells showed a greater than 5,000-fold increase in resistance, far surpassing their resistance to the selection drug.
Unsurpassed
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) On an analytical scale, electrophoretic methods in two dimensions or in capillaries are unsurpassed in resolution power.
(2) In this respect, the initial cephalometric findings are unsurpassed so far.
(3) There is no reason these unsurpassed skills we have in the private sector cannot help the problems the charity sector faces.
(4) The law provides the U.S. public with a degree of efficacy and safety of drugs which is unsurpassed in the world.
(5) The most persuasive arguments in favour of oral contraceptives which other reversible methods cannot claim are their unsurpassed safety as well as the simplicity of their application.
(6) Imaging-guided catheter techniques provide heretofore unsurpassed precision and accuracy in performance of these procedures.
(7) A total of 232 strains were examined, most of which were isolated from southwest Asia, where there is an unsurpassed number of indigenous host species for R. meliloti.
(8) I wonder if other readers would agree that for the Guardian to publish his collected works would be one suitable tribute to this unsurpassed genius of compilers.
(9) "He was unsurpassed for the grace he brought to every performance on and off the stage," he said.
(10) In his volume of autobiographical essays, A Small Boy and Others , Henry James remembers the Broadway of his youth, where he first saw paintings: “Ineffable, unsurpassable, those hours of initiation which the Broadway of the 1850s had been.
(11) To evaluate QL during treatment of individual patients, open interviews are unsurpassed.
(12) The Wright peak flow meter is unsurpassed for this purpose.
(13) In clinical trials to date involving more than 7,000 allergy patients, terfenadine (60 mg twice daily) has been shown to be unsurpassed in efficacy, to have a rapid onset of action, and to have an incidence of sedation not different from that of placebo and considerably less than that of conventional antihistamines.
(14) These data indicate unsurpassed protection of the upper tracts in those patients with neurogenic bladder dysfunction.
(15) For more mischievous passengers, the toilets, complete with windows, offer unsurpassed opportunities to moon entire villages from the safety of several thousand feet.
(16) "His commitment and effort level will be unsurpassed," he said.
(17) At the time of my visit, Julma Ölkky, the largest canyon lake in Finland and the jewel in Hossa’s crown, is still frozen, but canoe guide Janne is not daunted: “Hossa’s waters are unsurpassed in their accessibility.
(18) It delineates the profile of the individual neuron and its dendritic ramifications with unsurpassed clarity.
(19) Her love of music was unsurpassed and she enjoyed her time playing, travelling and competing in the Pipe Bands immensely.
(20) Lens angles of 0, 25, and 70 degrees, comprising a representative telescope set, accommodate virtually any endoscopic sinus procedure, diagnostic or therapeutic, with unsurpassed visualization.