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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Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2026
Continuing a long-term trend, new female undergraduates outnumbered men, 28,301 to 22,747.
—Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
Bikes outnumber cars, and history layers itself into every block.
—Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2026
Taking in the crowd, Hodges saw that police officers were preposterously outnumbered.
—Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
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“Outnumber.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outnumber. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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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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