outrunning

present participle of outrun

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of outrunning Meanwhile, Musk kept outrunning the movie with his controversial behavior. — Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026 Some of the skills needed to make data center components are even outrunning the trade schools, like the specialized welding skills needed. — Kevin Williams, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outrunning
Verb
  • Another 1 to 3 inches of rain is possible through the rest of the weekend, with localized totals exceeding 5 inches, as showers shift toward the Northeast.
    — Erika Angulo, NBC news, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Anti-elite sentiment rose 10 points, and support for the leader exceeding legal limits fell seven.
    — Thomas Shull, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • That would see her in the role into January 2029, surpassing Sarah Sanders’s time of almost two years in the job.
    — Rob Crilly, The Washington Examiner, 13 Oct. 2026
  • That’s easily the most for any calendar year since AAA started tracking in 2000, surpassing the prior record of 158 in 2022 during the Biden administration, much of which was attributed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026

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“Outrunning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outrunning. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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