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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Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 24 Sep. 2025
As minority leader, Caldwell will steer an at-times fractious caucus whose members are outnumbered nearly 2-to-1 by their Democratic colleagues.
—Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
Diasporic Jews still vastly outnumbered Israeli Jews, and Jewish activists were prominent in the American civil-rights movement, keeping alive the liberal-left, universalist approach to fighting racial prejudice.
—Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
It’s often said that, in New Orleans’ French Quarter, the dead outnumber the living, that residual energy from the past continues to inhabit the neighborhood’s 300-year-old buildings and mysterious courtyards.
—Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2025
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“Outnumber.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outnumber. Accessed 29 Sep. 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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