Goes beyond, like the speed limit

Usage examples of exceeds.

Or, if you start such a question to him, expect not, that he will employ his mind with any anxiety about a subject, so remote, so uninteresting, and which so much exceeds the bounds of his capacity.

Very often justice becomes unjust in that the punishment they mete out far exceeds the crime.

The bulk of material far exceeds any hope of its exhaustion by a single author.

Perhaps her enthusiasm for finding it will be better stoked when the sum exceeds seven figures.

I grieve to say, they add, that in the event of the thing falling through, they will issue execution for the amount of their costs, which, as I anticipated, a good deal exceeds four hundred pounds.

While the depth of understanding, intelligence and sensitivity of Helen Keller, who could neither see, hear nor speak, greatly exceeds that of any chimpanzee, her account of her discovery of language carries some of the feeling tone that this remarkable development in primate languages may convey to the chimpanzee, particularly in a context where language enhances survival or is strongly reinforced.