outran

past tense of outrun

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of outran Worthy outran Kader Kohou for a score that got a rise from the fans in attendance. Kansas City Star, 30 July 2026 In the $200,000 San Clemente Handicap 35-1 longshot Somerset West (Armando Ayuso) outran nine other 3-year-old fillies, including three formidable challengers who shipped in from the east. Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2026 Then Pulisic outran the defense and buried a goal off a pass from Ricardo Pepi. Tim Rohan, NBC news, 1 June 2026 For decades, sales teams often outran product teams. Lior Weinstein, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026 Counting Stars has gone off as the favorite in three of her last four starts and outran her 11-1 odds in a second in the Grade 3 Honeybee. Geoff Clark Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026 Buck’s Boy outran a stellar field of European and North American grass horses to take the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Turf in 1998 and was voted North America’s champion male turf horse. Neil Milbert, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026 Reuters noted that earlier this month, robots in Beijing outran human runners in a half-marathon race. Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026 Humanoid robots outran the fastest human competitors while surpassing the human world record during a half-marathon event held in Beijing on April 19. Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 20 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outran
Verb
  • Sales of the company's diabetes drug Ozempic and overall obesity portfolio exceeded analyst estimates for the quarter, according to StreetAccount.
    Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Advertising revenue was up 78% in that period, largely due to World Cup, which exceeded the company’s expectations.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Virgilijus’s Olympic record had stood for 20 years before his son and eventual 2024 Olympic gold medalist Roje Stona surpassed the mark in Paris.
    Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Alpha-Zero, as the system was called, surpassed human experts at chess, the Japanese chess variant Shogi, and the ancient strategy board game called Go.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2026

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“Outran.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outran. Accessed 11 Aug. 2026.

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