outranked

past tense of outrank
as in outweighed
to be greater in importance than one hard fact outranks a mountain of speculation anytime

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Recent Examples of outranked The University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley outranked Stanford University. Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025 And once the numbers were crunched, Estonia outranked the rest. Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outranked
outweighed
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  • Judge Cote ruled that those concerns were outweighed by the public’s right to know.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • At Leyba-Gonzalez's sentencing, Harrison said that her job was to sentence the person in front of her rather than to send a message, and that the mitigating factors in the case outweighed the aggravators.
    Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 9 Oct. 2025

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“Outranked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outranked. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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