outnumber
verb
out·num·ber
ˌau̇t-ˈnəm-bər 
outnumbered; outnumbering; outnumbers
: to exceed in number
Examples of outnumber in a Sentence
With 20 girls and 10 boys in the class, girls outnumber boys by 2 to 1.
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Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 27 June 2025
The number of states where older adults outnumbered children rose from three in 2020 – Florida, Maine, and Vermont – to 11 in 2024, with Delaware, Hawaii, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and West Virginia joining them.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans eight to one in New York City, according to Gothamist.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 25 June 2025
Paul Light, a scholar of public service at N.Y.U.’s Wagner School, has estimated that federal contractors outnumber civil servants by two to one.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
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“Outnumber.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outnumber. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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outnumber
verb
out·num·ber
(ˈ)au̇t-ˈnəm-bər
: to be more than in number
girls outnumber boys in the class
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