as in overtakes
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 outpaces
The rate of change across devices, applications and connections outpaces what human teams can track or document.
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Pavel Bykov, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Orforglipron will also be easier to manufacture at scale, which is crucial as demand for obesity and diabetes injections outpaces supply.
—Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2025
But its sheer impact still heavily outpaces any other Chinese film ever made.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 22 Aug. 2025
In San Diego — where demand outpaces supply and permitting delays are often measured in years — this means more options for working families, more middle-income housing, and better tools for cities to meet their housing needs without losing local oversight.
—Chris Ward, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
Even seasoned executives can be shaken when a crisis outpaces standard protocols.
—Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Greiner also noted that the number of people who are 65 and older and own a home far outpaces the rest of South Florida.
—Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 18 Mar. 2025
Technology regularly outpaces human evolution, and the online experience of non-stop global disasters seems to be way beyond our processing power.
—Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024
The problem is that my book-buying habit outpaces my ability to read them.
—Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 28 Dec. 2022
Pavel Bykov, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Orforglipron will also be easier to manufacture at scale, which is crucial as demand for obesity and diabetes injections outpaces supply.
—Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2025
But its sheer impact still heavily outpaces any other Chinese film ever made.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 22 Aug. 2025
In San Diego — where demand outpaces supply and permitting delays are often measured in years — this means more options for working families, more middle-income housing, and better tools for cities to meet their housing needs without losing local oversight.
—Chris Ward, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
Even seasoned executives can be shaken when a crisis outpaces standard protocols.
—Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Greiner also noted that the number of people who are 65 and older and own a home far outpaces the rest of South Florida.
—Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 18 Mar. 2025
Technology regularly outpaces human evolution, and the online experience of non-stop global disasters seems to be way beyond our processing power.
—Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024
The problem is that my book-buying habit outpaces my ability to read them.
—Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 28 Dec. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outpaces
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Kyle Schwarber overtakes Shohei Ohtani on the Great Race!—
Andrew Wright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Aug. 2025
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Authorities want people to leave before seawater overtakes Highway 12, the main road connecting a long string of North Carolina communities.—
Bill Chappell,
NPR,
19 Aug. 2025
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Yet Team Cherry, along with dozens of coders and others, working quietly and deliberately, has crafted something that rivals (and often surpasses) the work of those massive studios.—
Keller Gordon,
NPR,
8 Sep. 2025
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That surpasses the size of a July attack by Moscow that was previously the largest of the war, which began with Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor in February 2022.—
Svitlana Vlasova,
CNN Money,
7 Sep. 2025
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The Marswalker opens its fold-out front doors, and the S2 drives up into a central compartment before the doors close again to secure the S2 in place.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
4 Sep. 2025
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Attendees acknowledged early how much of what drives housing costs lies outside city and state control, such as interest rates or labor and material supply.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
4 Sep. 2025
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Even more important, the depth of cooperation between Ukraine and NATO now far outstrips the level Putin worried about before the war, precisely because of Russia’s invasion.—
Alexander Gabuev,
Foreign Affairs,
26 Aug. 2025
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Local officials have prosecuted hundreds of people accused of being in the country illegally, taking a blistering pace that far outstrips recent years.—
Dave Boucher,
Freep.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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“Outpaces.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outpaces. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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