Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for one-upping
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To have any hope of outrunning the spectral presence, the player must commit a serpentine route to memory.—
Lewis Gordon,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025 -
Abby weeping over a grave, Ellie and Dina slow-dancing (and then outrunning a horde of infected), and a brief glimpse of Isaac by a campfire.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
7 Jan. 2025
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The decline was attributed to an increase in interest expense outpacing the rise in interest income.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
10 Mar. 2025
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The automaker has steadily lost electric vehicle market share to its competitors, while its largest rival in China is outpacing it with advances in driver-assistance software, which Musk has staked out as a cornerstone of his business.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
7 Mar. 2025
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Developing a liquid metal layer The extreme conditions within a fusion reactor, where super-heated plasma reaches temperatures exceeding those of the sun, pose a significant challenge to material science.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Mar. 2025
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Winston has continued to provide value in locker rooms despite not exceeding the big expectations that followed the 2013 Heisman Trophy winner to the NFL during his first five seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.—
The Athletic NFL Staff,
The Athletic,
22 Mar. 2025
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The 2024 edition marks the highest tally of all time, greatly surpassing Barack Obama’s previous record of 95,894 pages.—
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.,
Forbes,
31 Dec. 2024
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The movie Wicked has officially become the highest-grossing Broadway adaptation in box office history, surpassing the movie musical Mamma Mia.—
George Monastiriakos,
Newsweek,
31 Dec. 2024
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Today, Christmas combines such sacred traditions with cultural practices that bring people together, transcending religious boundaries to foster a spirit of joy and connection.—
Priscilla Whitehead,
Sun Sentinel,
24 Dec. 2024
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The intimate venue, a joint collaboration between Bar Lab Hospitality and Link Miami Rebels, proved the perfect vessel for Lazarus’ genre-transcending journey through the underground.—
Jaime Sloane,
SPIN,
16 Dec. 2024
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But it's been about nine years since more than 30,000 backers flocked to the Kickstarter campaign—raising more than $1 million and eclipsing Polygons' $10,000 goal.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
14 Mar. 2025
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Shares are down nearly 12% in 2025, eclipsing the S & P 500′s 5% pullback during that time.—
Sean Conlon,
CNBC,
12 Mar. 2025
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At the time, Barnett was a rising star in the speakers’ circuit because of her son Jacob, a physics wiz with autism who made headlines for excelling at school when experts doubted his abilities.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
TIME,
18 Mar. 2025
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After excelling in all-Black educational environments, including as an undergraduate at Howard University, Milton Rooks became one of a very small number of Black students to enroll at the Golden Gate University School of Law in the early 1960s.—
Justin Driver,
The Atlantic,
15 Mar. 2025
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Meanwhile, supply is outstripping demand on the used market.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Mar. 2025
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Demand is outstripping supply in areas like machine learning and robotics.—
Bloomberg,
The Mercury News,
20 Mar. 2025
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“One-upping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/one-upping. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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