outrunning

present participle of outrun

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of outrunning To wit, an investor who was in at the start would be down $65,530 on a price basis on a $100,000 investment, as of this writing, from the IPO date, but would have collected about $75,000 from dividends, just barely outrunning the loss on price. Michael Foster, Forbes.com, 28 July 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 The Timberwolves were outrunning the Jazz at home with a 23-9 advantage in fast-break points through three quarters, but couldn't sustain that effort in the fourth. CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outrunning
Verb
  • Even before the attacks, Russian space officials said demand for Soyuz rockets were exceeding the production capacity, Russian Space Web reports.
    Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 15 Aug. 2026
  • In France, Italy and Spain, some 92 million people are sweltering in temperatures exceeding 95 degrees Fahrenheit in cities largely without air-conditioning.
    NPR Staff, NPR, 14 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The Timber Fire in California's Big Sur continued to grow Thursday, surpassing 4,000 acres as crews worked overnight to increase containment, helped by weather conditions.
    Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • As the Timber Fire continued to grow Wednesday, surpassing 3,500 acres and with only 5% contained, many tourist attractions along the Big Sur coast remained under evacuation orders or were closed to the public.
    Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2026

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“Outrunning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outrunning. Accessed 19 Aug. 2026.

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