as in exceeds
to be greater, better, or stronger than
before he had reached his teens, the child prodigy had outstripped his music teacher's abilities
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Recent Examples of outstrips
And the tickets are free, which means demand regularly outstrips supply.
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Big Think, 14 Oct. 2025
This pace outstrips the rate of underlying consumer spending growth by tenfold, underscoring its centrality to both market performance and broader economic data.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
Demand always vastly outstrips supply — in the 2025 fiscal year lottery, more than 470,000 people applied.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025
Unsurprisingly, problems can arise when a person’s credit balance outstrips their savings.
—Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025
Even more important, the depth of cooperation between Ukraine and NATO now far outstrips the level Putin worried about before the war, precisely because of Russia’s invasion.
—Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2025
Local officials have prosecuted hundreds of people accused of being in the country illegally, taking a blistering pace that far outstrips recent years.
—Dave Boucher, Freep.com, 25 Aug. 2025
His overall 134 Unadjusted Contact Score far outstrips his 83 adjusted mark.
—Tony Blengino, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Rabbinic tales of the Golem asked what happens when obedience outstrips wisdom.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outstrips
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That amount exceeds what is consumed in South Florida daily, and during times of high water the state’s flood control procedures require that even more freshwater be discharged to the coasts.—
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Two-way contracts don’t count against the salary cap, but Brown is ineligible to sign one because his NBA service time exceeds the maximum allowable for two-way players.—
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Wilkens, with his 939th win, surpasses Red Auerbach’s record.—
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That price typically surpasses the $1 million mark.—
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Boasting 701 hp, the new 2026 Turbo S eclipses the GT2 RS as the most powerful 911 in history.—
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Roughly 50 percent of Americans have tried the drug, and according to a 2024 study, the number of people using cannabis daily or near daily now eclipses the number who drink alcohol at a similar frequency.—
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Nationally, that number tops $148 billion and continues to climb.—
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One can surmise that the Iced Dubai Chocolate Matcha tops Starbucks’ iced matcha latte with a chocolate and pistachio-flavored cold foam.—
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“Outstrips.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outstrips. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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