eclipse
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That’s the funny part about Keller’s goal: It instantly eclipsed another outrageous goal, which happened with Team USA down 1-0 and three-quarters of the way out the door.
Mao grew paranoid that the military’s devotion to Lin was eclipsing its loyalty to him.
Gains made by the billionaire class, the very top 0.1% of households and a subset of the 1%, have eclipsed the merely extremely rich.
He described the "mixed feelings" that overwhelmed him when he arrived home in December -- the joy of returning, swiftly eclipsed by grief at his mother's death.
From Barron's
A transit occurs when a planet crosses in front of its star from our point of view, briefly dimming the starlight in a small eclipse.
From Science Daily
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