Synonyms of outrunning

outrunning

verb

present participle of outrun

as in exceeding

to go beyond the limit of

our expenses have been outrunning our revenues for some months now

Synonyms & Similar Words

• exceeding
• surpassing
• overrunning
• transcending
• overshooting
• overreaching
• overstepping
• outreaching
• invading
• breaking
• encroaching
• overpassing
• entrenching
• trespassing
• infringing
• overdoing
• overworking
• overusing
• overutilizing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of outrunning

My own read, after two years of watching vendor roadmaps slip and then compress again, is that the hardware is still outrunning the software. — Dax Grant, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026

The stock jumped another 8% in late July after second-quarter earnings beat estimates, outrunning Salesforce and Workday in the same rally. — Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2026

His peers of the mid-19th century were outrunning their critics and the old strictures of colonial imitation. — Steven Johnson, Washington Post, 14 July 2026

The Times reported that Dela Rosa had been in hiding for months but that he was seen publicly on Monday in the Senate building when surveillance cameras captured footage of him outrunning agents seeking to arrest him. — Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026

And his rider, Flavien Prat, has a knack for outrunning the odds with his mounts in Triple Crown races. — Steve Kornacki, NBC news, 1 May 2026

Cutting off a guy’s finger and stitching a tiny bomb into someone’s chest is essentially the same as remembering how to put together a gun or outrunning a horde of bad guys. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Apr. 2026

Moffa says the first step in navigating grief is to stop outrunning it. — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 26 Feb. 2026

George gathers a defensive rebound, and Sarr, who starts this sequence underneath his defensive backboard, sprints upcourt, outrunning his Knicks counterpart, Karl-Anthony Towns. — Josh Robbins, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026