How to pronounce overtaken
Listen to overtaken in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
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“overtaken” in real sentences
250 clips in the index · 35 American · 103 British · 3 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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been overtaken by events.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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just be overtaken by overseas businesses.
ABC News In-depth · hear it here
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control had not yet overtaken merit.
Oxford Union · hear it here
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Had the Soviets overtaken us in technology?
Smithsonian Air & Space · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of overtaken. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.