as in to outweigh
to be greater in importance than one hard fact outranks a mountain of speculation anytime

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Recent Examples of outrank Furthermore, only 4% of respondents to an Economist-YouGov tracking poll last week ranked crime as the most important issue to them, with inflation and prices (21%), jobs and the economy (14%), and healthcare (11%) all significantly outranking crime. Christian Datoc, The Washington Examiner, 12 Aug. 2025 And once the numbers were crunched, Estonia outranked the rest. Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2025 Late baseball legends Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron have been outranked by players from later eras as a new study has calculated the sport's greatest players of all time. Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 July 2025 Amarillo had the third-lowest cost of living, only outranked by Flint, Michigan (No. 1) and Oklahoma City (No. 2). Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 18 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for outrank
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  • Lawmakers argue the risks to public health outweigh the economic impact.
    Gina Lee Castro, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • But most players believe the benefits will outweigh those negatives.
    Vincent Z. Mercogliano, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Outrank.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outrank. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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