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Recent Examples of outmatch While injuries played a role, they were ultimately outmatched by the superior squad. Ricardo Klein, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025 Ben Curtis Morning line odds: 30-1 The second of two horses in the Oaks trained by Louisville’s Whit Beckman, Drexel Hill looks to be significantly outmatched. Teresa Genaro, New York Times, 1 May 2025 But China is the first to outmatch the United States in size alone, as well as in several strategically relevant areas. Kurt M. Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 10 Apr. 2025 The process can trigger anxiety, helplessness and even relational trauma, especially when one party feels outmatched or unheard. Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for outmatch
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outmatch
Verb
  • Meanwhile, a 2024 forecast by Research and Markets estimates the digital education sector will surpass $80 billion by 2030, driven by microlearning and online skill monetization.
    Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • The market could surpass those previous records on Friday or early next week, analysts told CBS MoneyWatch.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 26 June 2025
Verb
  • That deal could have reached as high as £89m (€100m) were subsequent clauses met; the amounts guaranteed on the sale of Wirtz have already exceeded that figure.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 21 June 2025
  • Annual interest payments now already exceed $1 trillion, and JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has called it a red flag.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Verb
  • Among all attacking midfielders in La Liga, Williams completed 112 high turnovers, a figure bettered only by… Raphinha and Yamal.
    Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 20 June 2025
  • There is one place where F1 deviates from standard tropes and betters itself in the process.
    Scott Phillips, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
Verb
  • Joya wasn’t with us that day; my mother had handed me enough heavy coins to purchase it from a trinket stand in Trafalgar Square, where long white poles around Nelson’s Column were festooned with regal banners and topped with crowns.
    Jhumpa Lahiri, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • On the Soundtracks chart, where KPop Demon Hunters enters at No. 1, the album is the first from a Netflix program to top the list in over two years — since Stranger Things: Soundtrack from the Netflix Series, Volume 4, re-entered atop the list dated Nov. 19, 2022, for its first week at No. 1.
    Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 30 June 2025

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“Outmatch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outmatch. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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