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Recent Examples of outrun Six miles away in Drew, Townsend-Blackmon hadn’t outrun the video. Kevin Collier, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2025 Bryson Tiller has spent almost a decade trying to outrun the ghost of his debut album. Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 25 Aug. 2025 All Zaccheaus needed to do was outrun Bishop and make one move to dodge safety Damar Hamlin and the Bears had an early end zone party and a feel-good Williams touchdown pass that reactivated Chicago’s imagination for what the future might hold. Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025 Ross is nimble enough to outrun those comparisons, shifty enough to outrun those expectations, and fast enough to outrun Horton’s shadow. Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 19 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for outrun
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Verb
  • Buoyed by those gains, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite secured new closing highs, with the former exceeding the 6,600 level for the first time.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Open sources estimate that in 2022, UralVagonZavod produced some 60-70 T-90M tanks; by 2023, that may have risen to 140-180; and for 2024, output is estimated to have exceeded 200 units annually.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Employee health costs are likely to surpass $5,000 next year as companies see their biggest cost increases in at least five years, according to projections from Aon.
    Bruce Japsen, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • During their 27-18 victory over the Commanders at Lambeau Field, however, the Packers surpassed Parsons’ best-case scenario.
    Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Outrun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outrun. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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