OUTPACE Synonyms: 100 Similar and Opposite Words

outpace

verb

Definition of outpace

as in to overtake

to go or grow faster than (something) Population growth has continued to outpace job growth for the last several decades. The demand for the product has outpaced the company's ability to produce it.

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Recent Examples of outpace According to tax records from 2025, the Contemporary Art Foundation’s (CAM’s overseeing body) expenses outpaced its revenue by $200,000. — News Desk, Artforum, 5 Aug. 2026 Through June, Braves president and CEO Derek Schiller said in a statement, average attendance was up and BravesVision (the team’s new network) was outpacing early projections for direct-to-consumer subscriptions. — Ken Sugiura, AJC.com, 5 Aug. 2026 Kaitlyn Bosshardt, a social worker at Partnership Health Center, a health clinic in Missoula, has seen more people priced out of longtime rentals as housing costs outpace people's paychecks. — Katheryn Houghton, NPR, 4 Aug. 2026 Spotify said the improvement in gross margin in Q2 was driven by Premium gains (as revenue growth outpaced music costs net of marketplace programs, audiobooks costs and video podcast costs). — Todd Spangler, Variety, 4 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for outpace

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The legislation, the majority leader warned at a news conference recently, could overtake the work of as many as a dozen committees.

— Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026
As the novel coronavirus overtook daily life, in the spring of 2020, our celebrities occupied uneasy terrain.

— Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of overtake

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With the first movie becoming Blumhouse’s biggest opening ever in 2023, despite a theatrical day-and-date on Peacock, followed by last year’s sequel breaking multiple box office records, the franchise has surpassed $530M globally.

— Glenn Garner, Deadline, 9 Aug. 2026
Solar generation surged again in 2025 and, for the first time, surpassed wind as a source of global electricity.

— Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of surpass

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Other experts say that unless Japan addresses the structural forces driving the weakness in yen, the intervention's effects are likely to be short-lived.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2026
Both have driven over 20B minutes of viewership on streaming platforms from January through June.

— Katie Campione, Deadline, 4 Aug. 2026

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