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aced (out)

verb

past tense of ace (out)

as in knocked over

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Another time, happy hour was almost doomed after someone knocked over the Nalgene bottle of pre-mixed margaritas.

— Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 30 July 2026
The strong gales knocked over a Waffle House sign onto a car in Panama City Beach, Florida.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026

Definition of knocked over

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Thunderstorms that sweep through the Kansas City area producing brilliant flashes of lightning and booming thunder knocked off power to around 10,000 customers in the Kansas City area.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 6 Aug. 2026
Players from both benches continued to flock from the bullpen onto the field, and several players’ helmets were knocked off during the incident.

— Eleanor Jacobs, PEOPLE, 24 July 2026

Definition of knocked off

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Sales of the company's diabetes drug Ozempic and overall obesity portfolio exceeded analyst estimates for the quarter, according to StreetAccount.

— Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2026
Advertising revenue was up 78% in that period, largely due to World Cup, which exceeded the company’s expectations.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of exceeded

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The absentee and mail ballot numbers have already topped the highest nonpresidential primary year, with more than 200,000 people already having voted.

— Esme Murphy, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
Bieber's carousel also included a video of herself working out at a gym and a photo in which she was seen holding a plate of meatballs topped with red sauce and cheese.

— Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of topped

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Neighbouring Devon should also encounter a high percentage of coverage, while people in Pembrokeshire, Wales, are set to see up to 94% of the sun eclipsed.

— Callum Sutherland, Time, 7 Aug. 2026
However, what's been largely overlooked is the scale of the partially eclipsed sunset across Europe and northwest Africa.

— Jamie Carter, Space.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of eclipsed

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Virgilijus’s Olympic record had stood for 20 years before his son and eventual 2024 Olympic gold medalist Roje Stona surpassed the mark in Paris.

— Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2026
Alpha-Zero, as the system was called, surpassed human experts at chess, the Japanese chess variant Shogi, and the ancient strategy board game called Go.

— Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of surpassed

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Dance The ballet dancer Misty Copeland’s fight on behalf of Black dancers, who have traditionally been underrepresented in ballet, along with the determination and grace that have characterized her own rise, has arguably transcended the art itself.

— Rhoda Feng, New Yorker, 31 July 2026
Danhausen transcended into the mainstream zeitgeist after cursing and un-cursing the New York Knicks en route to the team winning the NBA Championship after a 52-year drought.

— Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

Definition of transcended

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The moment the number of pages outstripped the number of people who could reasonably classify them, the future belonged to crawlers and ranking systems.

— Alan Bradley, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026
That overwhelming demand for data center buildouts has vastly outstripped the industry’s ability to supply it.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026

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