Examples of outearn in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Numbers show that, generation by generation, people are becoming less and less likely to outearn their parents. — Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 16 June 2021 Over 64% of mothers are co- or primary breadwinners, defined as married or unmarried women who either outearn their partners or bring home at least a quarter of the household's income through their wages. — Lisa Selin Davis, CNN, 1 Dec. 2020 By way of comparison, bachelor’s-degree holders outearn high-school grads by something like a million dollars over the course of their lives. — The Editors, National Review, 19 Nov. 2020 More women outearn their husbands, which causes friction for millennial couples. — Ashley Shaffer, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2020 Today, BofA not only outearns Wells—which has been bedeviled by the fallout from its aggressive sales culture—but the former’s valuation is more than $100 billion higher, at $325 billion. — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2020 The racial wage gap is smaller, for example, in state and local governments, and in some places more educated black workers outearn white ones. — Bryce Covert, Longreads, 24 Sep. 2019 Separate research by Chetty and several collaborators shows that, while Americans born in 1940 had a 92 percent chance of outearning their parents, those born four decades later had just a 50/50 chance. — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019 But, these days, Williams outearns her off the court, too. — Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2019

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