What's the difference between surpassing and unrivaled?

Surpassing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surpass
  • (a.) Eminently excellent; exceeding others.

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.

Unrivaled


Definition:

  • (a.) Having no rival; without a competitor; peerless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Brian McKeon, a senior Pentagon policy official, defended Lewis’ efficacy to the Guardian, citing his “bipartisan experience and unrivaled expertise” on Guantánamo matters gained from his prior stint as a congressional aide.
  • (2) The described assay is unrivaled in simplicity, rapidity, and reproducibility and generates results for a large number of samples within hours.
  • (3) For procedures of the upper respiratory tract, it is unrivaled by the synthetic anesthetics.
  • (4) As part of the package, EA gets its branding on match and player performance statistics for the League, and also receives unrivaled access to the teams and players.
  • (5) The scrutiny over Facebook’s treatment of editorial content has been intensifying for months, reflecting the site’s unrivaled power and influence in distributing news alongside everything else its users share on the site.
  • (6) Much of the new information builds on what already has been established by MR imaging, namely its unrivaled position in staging musculoskeletal tumors and demonstrating the extent of marrow disease.
  • (7) For depiction of soft-tissue masses, MR imaging is unrivaled.
  • (8) International inspectors will enjoy unrivaled access to all nuclear sites and Iran’s program will be monitored 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
  • (9) Moreover, the primate visual system exhibits a degree of precision in the specification of the nasotemporal division unrivaled among the mammalian species studied to date.
  • (10) The Habs have lifted the Cup an unrivaled 24 times , but the franchise has failed to recapture the aura and mystique which helped them to win at least one title every seven seasons for 45 years - now it’s been over two decades since their fans gathered throughout Quebec to celebrate the ultimate victory.
  • (11) Although extracapsular cataract extraction and posterior chamber lens technology is of unrivaled safety and efficacy, the following aspects command considerable attention: chronic postoperative inflammation, inhibition of posterior capsular opacification, facilitation of YAG-laser posterior capsulectomy, prevention of ultraviolet radiation exposure, and sulcus versus capsular-bag fixation of posterior chamber lenses.

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