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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Jim Turner, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2026
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Enslavers’ fortunes and lives depended on being able to control the able-bodied Black men and women who outnumbered them—20, 40, 60 Black bodies crammed into slave shacks, versus maybe a dozen white family members in the big house.
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Jim Turner, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2026
As the chief creative officer of JoySauce, Inatsugu wants to create a space where Asian Americans do not feel outnumbered.
—Anthony Solorzano, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
Enslavers’ fortunes and lives depended on being able to control the able-bodied Black men and women who outnumbered them—20, 40, 60 Black bodies crammed into slave shacks, versus maybe a dozen white family members in the big house.
—Eugene Robinson, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2026
University police said officers were outnumbered in managing crowds.
—Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 3 Feb. 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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