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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
eclipse .
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Examples
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OnLive may simply capture the next-gen market away from the 360 and PS3, but remain eclipsed by the all-games-for-all-people appeal of the Wii.
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After parading out this statistical data, many of these writers then allow the female emigrant of the pre-famine period to be once again eclipsed by male experiences.
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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The 33-point margin eclipsed the biggest wins in Carolina history, a pair of 32-point triumphs. ...
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I don't like "eclipsed" - it suggests that if you wait a little while the prediction will be back.
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His faith in Christ and ministerial calling eclipsed all his education, notoriety and accolades.
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Each time has that name eclipsed its predecessor, while recalling it for a moment to fresher memory: John Brown revived the story of Nat Turner, as in his day Nat Turner recalled the vaster schemes of Gabriel.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various
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Each time has that name eclipsed its predecessor, while recalling it for a moment to fresher memory; John Brown revived the story of Nat.
History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George Washington Williams
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I didn't like that Zsasz kind of eclipsed him, because Stirk was scarier.
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According to urban-studies professor Carola Hein, for instance, once Hiroshima "eclipsed" Tokyo as "the archetype of urban trauma in Japan," the significance of the capital's great 1923 earthquake shifted to something less devastating.
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And what it's done is it kind of eclipsed their own ability to define their own candidacies and the rationale for their running.
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