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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Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2026
If the skeptics hadn’t outnumbered the optimists by many miles, there’s no way Rockefeller could have pieced together what became Standard Oil.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
The 12 judges nominated by Republican presidents outnumber the five Democratic appointees.
—Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 20 Jan. 2026
Lang’s group was outnumbered by a much larger group of counterdemonstrators, KARE reported.
—Chris Boyette, CNN Money, 18 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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