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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Vanessa Romo, NPR, 7 July 2025
Cut off and outnumbered, his regiment was forced to surrender; Vonnegut and more than 6,000 other soldiers were captured.
—Noah Hawley, The Atlantic, 2 July 2025
Now 80, Riley’s Heat have not won it all since 2013, and the misses have outnumbered the hits lately in the whale-hunting category, most recently going after but failing to close a trade for Kevin Durant.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 27 June 2025
In fact, the number of states and counties where older adults outnumber children is on the rise, especially in sparsely populated areas.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
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“Outnumber.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outnumber. Accessed 13 Jul. 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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