Thesaurus results for OUTWEIGHS

outweighs

verb

Definition of outweighs next

present tense third-person singular of outweigh

as in exceeds

to be greater in importance than in most elections the state of the economy outweighs all other issues

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Recent Examples of outweighs The laws of armed conflict allow attacks on civilian infrastructure only if the military advantage outweighs the civilian harm, legal scholars say. —

Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 6 Apr. 2026 The laws of armed conflict allow attacks on civilian infrastructure only if the military advantage outweighs the civilian harm, legal scholars say. —

ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026 For young players, the chance to secure life-changing money often outweighs the upside of going year to year in arbitration and hitting free agency at a younger age. —

Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2026 The resulting management overhead — spending elite engineering time correcting outputs and paying the high token costs of ungrounded prompts — eventually outweighs the initial speed of creation. —

Mohith Shrivastava, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2026 Still, the honor of being called to public service outweighs the risk, Conrad said. —

Madeline King, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026 For him, credibility outweighs expansion. —

Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026 PBHs have also been considered as a possible constituent of dark matter, the invisible matter permeating the universe that outweighs normal matter by a factor of about five. —

Phil Plait, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2026 And the city’s dire need for new housing outweighs aesthetic concerns. —

Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Mar. 2026

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The amount of warm water available for this year’s event exceeds that in 1997-98, which was among the strongest El Niño events of the century, said Paul Roundy, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Albany.

— Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
That savings program is supposed to be used to build reserves and reduce Connecticut’s considerable pension debt, which still exceeds $33 billion, according to the governor’s budget office.

— Laura Tillman, Hartford Courant, 9 Apr. 2026