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The lifting and installation operation took two days to complete and has already outpaced the construction of Unit 1, which began a year earlier.—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 2 June 2026 Blume takes that view, noting that Bitcoin has outpaced inflation across multi-year stretches.—Sharon Wu, USA Today, 2 June 2026 In many cities and counties, those rolls have outpaced population growth and inflation.—Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 2 June 2026 Women whose incomes outpace their male partners’ have a 35% increase in the likelihood of domestic violence and a 20% increase in emotional abuse.—Julia Korn, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for outpace