to move beyond
- phrasal verb
- To achieve lasting change, we must move beyond anger and work towards understanding.
- move beyond traditional
- move beyond understanding
- move beyond discussion
It can be hard to move beyond your shyness when you're insecure.
- It can be hard to move beyond your shyness when you're insecure.
- It's really hard to move beyond those emotional states.
- And here's where we're getting ready to move beyond tragedy.
- I get lost in it and eventually move beyond the person's voice just to the content.
- And this allows them to move beyond that feeling of hatred, outright hatred, right?
- And pure consciousness was something that transcended that, that moved beyond that.
- And so I think the the challenge for Mexico is to move beyond this atrocity approach to drugs.
- To advance knowledge, to create new technologies and to see those technologies move beyond the boundaries of the Academy.
- I know it is, but like didn't we move beyond that to like Google Hangouts or whatever that's called Google Meet?
- I think that's how we really start to create an environment where we think outside the box, innovate and kind of move beyond these very limiting constraints.
- And then how do we develop the capacity to see it objectively so that we can begin to unpack it and move beyond it?
- So you got to move beyond the initial reflex, No.
Examples
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It's time to move beyond animal testing.
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Despite recent efforts by both U.S. and Chinese leaders to move beyond the current stalemate, little has been achieved.
Academic text (1999) -
We eventually are going to become a society where we have to move beyond Earth to be able to live.
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We can move beyond the prototype phase.
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We have to move beyond these protests to some real political power.
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Therein, individuals move beyond shared learning and support to actually living together in spiritual community.
Academic text (1999) -
Guide tomorrow's graduates as they move beyond Stanford.
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Nevertheless, this is a ripe area for research that should move beyond the deductive approach used here.
Academic text (1990) -
But once you move beyond the grieving process, you're like, wait, hold on.
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How can we move beyond solipsism and Hollywood tropes?
Synonyms
To start the next stage or activity and stop focusing on the past
To help something move forward or become better
Manage to move beyond a problem or a bad feeling
To begin talking about a different topic or activity
Move forward or get better over time
To start or continue something so it gets closer to a goal
To keep making progress despite problems
Move on to a higher level after getting better
Be better than a limit or what people expected
Keep going despite problems or objections
To move past another person or thing and go ahead of them
Antonyms
How Far
- Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to progress past an issue or stage' is directly derivable from combining 'move' (to proceed) with 'beyond' (past/at a further point); the composition follows a basic motion/extension pattern that applies to both concrete and abstract contexts. This verb + particle construction is cross-linguistically common and predictable, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The phrasal verb move beyond comes from the simple picture of walking past a fence or obstacle. You move and go beyond it to reach new ground, so it means 'to progress past' a problem, stage, or old idea and go on to something new.