hurdled

past tense of hurdle

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Verb
  • Advance Auto Parts — The auto parts provider leaped 24% after third-quarter earnings and revenue topped Wall Street expectations.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Cohn reportedly leaped from an upper balcony in the resort’s Bay Tower, which connects to the rest of the complex via a sky bridge.
    Theresa Braine, Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Patrick Mahomes overcame the worst start to a game in his storied career to lead the Kansas City Chiefs to a 28-7 victory over the Washington Commanders on Monday Night Football.
    Ben Morse, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025
  • While reflecting on the special father-son moment, Broderick said his son overcame his nerves.
    Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Net income jumped, coming in at $35 billion, a 33% increase.
    Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Two weekends ago, the track sold just over 900 digital downloads, and that number jumped nearly 60% to nearly 1,500 digital downloads following the release of the remix EP.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But in the third, with the Penguins starting to hem the Wild into their zone, Matt Boldy, who has one goal in the past eight games, threw an errant pass for an icing.
    Michael Russo, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
  • King Charles threw a secret party at Windsor Castle to celebrate a royal family member.
    Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The puck bounced up and hit DeMelo in the face, and a referee whistled Boldy for high sticking, although replay revealed at no time did Boldy’s stick touch DeMelo.
    Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Beyond the housing units that concealed this bloody event, a truck rumbled along the road, a basketball bounced, children squealed, the sounds foreign, from another world.
    Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Deep learning soon conquered speech recognition, translation, image captioning, board games, and even the problem of predicting how proteins will fold.
    James Somers, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • And some fears really can be conquered.
    Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appetit Magazine, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The author, who is editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine, points to the fact that Kate used to like the walk the dogs in the park that bounded the palace.
    Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The development is bounded by Wiles Road to the north, Sample Road to the south, State Road 7 to the west and Lyons Road to the east.
    Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Josh Allen and the Bills outduel the Chiefs In a matchup of two of the game’s brightest stars, Bills quarterback Josh Allen bested Patrick Mahomes and the rest of the Kansas City Chiefs in the weekend’s highest-profile game, winning 28-21.
    Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The Game Maker has since been bested (for now), but the midseason finale finds our hero once again in the midst of a potential murderer.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
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“Hurdled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hurdled. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.

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