(v. t.) To exceed, or leave behind, in running; to run faster than; to outstrip; to go beyond.
Example Sentences:
(1) They were heading north again, back to Savissivik, back to solid land, trying to outrun the melt.
(2) Many reviewers have commented how perfect the trainers are for "kicking [Texas governor] Rick Perry's ass", or how the trainers were "guaranteed to outrun patriarchy".
(3) The concept of major depressive disorder in childhood and adolescence is reviewed and it is suggested that contemporary enthusiasm for this diagnosis may have outrun the evidence that it is a distinct categorical entity.
(4) Read more The report also said sugar should be avoided, people should stop counting calories and the idea that exercise could help you “outrun a bad diet” was a myth.
(5) They're just savvy, and aware that we're slow, cumbersome and could never outrun them.
(6) In its top territory, South Korea, its current running total, $16.2m, has already outrun all of the Bond films, the source material for its lampooning; after Kingsman: The Secret Service’s top-tier performance ($46.9m) in the Asian country, it’s obvious that they take the business of international espionage extremely unseriously there.
(7) The phrase described “our discovery of means of economising the use of labour outrunning the pace at which we can find new uses for labour”.
(8) Yet however bold her attempts to make history, one fears she will never completely outrun controversy.
(9) If floating communities are the way of the future, we will have to learn this lesson well: we can no longer simply outrun our own refuse.
(10) I realised Dad was right about a lot of other things too - as was Mom - and when I sat down to write about my life, I found that amid the tales of stolen grocery money and doing the skedaddle in the middle of the night to outrun the bill collectors were stories of optimism, perseverance and familial love that I had all but forgotten.
(11) Sometimes fact outruns even the most gruesome fiction.
(12) This judgment sends a strong signal to all who are in positions of responsibility that they will be held accountable for their actions and shows that fugitives cannot outrun the international community’s collective resolve to make sure they face justice according to the law,” Ban said.
(13) Here though Crystal Palace were victors entirely on merit, a composed, skilful, physically dominant visiting team who executed their game plan – pressing Chelsea in the centre, outrunning them on the flanks – to perfection in a well deserved victory.
(14) For Yusuf Sarkin, the gunfire and the screaming and the frenzy of bodies trying to outrun bullets flying through the sandy streets of Baga blended into one long awful blur.
(15) Yet, on his point about the players’ effort, there are statistics that show they are repeatedly outrun in matches.
(16) We haven't outrun the past; we're not immune to history or old prejudices.
(17) Kid Cudi and Aaron Paul in Need for Speed Photograph: Melinda Sue Gordon Can intrepid Aaron Paul outrun the long shadow of Breaking Bad and become a fully fledged movie star in his own right?
(18) What the SEC did not anticipate was that in the new fragmented system of a dozen virtual exchanges, this provided the opportunity for high-frequency traders to outrun the market while staying within the law.
(19) On entering into hibernation and on arousal, the HR change outruns the corresponding body temperature (Tb) change by 1.5-2 hours.
(20) Khan (31-3, 19 KO) may never outrun the questions about his punch resistance, but when a heat-seeking right hand detonated on his jaw in the second round, he took it well.
Outstrip
Definition:
(v. t.) To go faster than; to outrun; to advance beyond; to leave behing.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, rights being accrued are outstripping receipts.
(2) With global remittances tripling over the past decade and now outstripping official aid, diaspora groups and international NGOs urgently need to find ways of working together more effectively.
(3) Four children have sickle-cell anaemia, two sickle-cell haemoglobin C disease, one has sickle-cell thalassaemia, and one is asymptomatic haemoglobin C thalassaemia.It is emphasized that the contribution that adult sickle-cell disease patients make, through procreation, to the persistence of the S gene may be greater than is normally supposed, and that this contribution may soon outstrip that made by balanced polymorphism through falciparum malaria.
(4) The film became Allen's highest-grossing in North America ever, outstripping Hannah and Her Sisters.
(5) The public sector will buy a lot of that technology at first (52% of the market over the next 10 years), but private sector customers will outstrip public sector buyers of space-based IP in the longer term, it said.
(6) Although it had been anticipated that affordable private rents in expensive inner city areas such as Westminster would be scarce, the acute housing shortage in the capital means market rents outstrip benefit cap levels in cheaper outer London boroughs including Haringey, Waltham Forest, and Barking and Dagenham.
(7) Green organisations – who, if conservation groups such as the National Trust are included, boast a combined membership of millions, far outstripping any political party – are gearing up for that fight.
(8) The headline rate of annual pay growth looks set to have outstripped consumer price index inflation in February.
(9) In London and the south-east, house price growth has outstripped wages and the lower costs of living, making it more difficult to buy.
(10) Many will remain trapped in their parents' homes as property prices continue to outstrip earnings, warns the NHF.
(11) The prevalence of these conditions outstrips the medical profession's efficiency and effectiveness in dealing with them.
(12) Apple has delayed the international launch of its iPad computer for a month, blaming "surprisingly strong US demand" that has outstripped its ability to produce them.
(13) The demand for qualified nurses continues to outstrip the existing and anticipated supply.
(14) Unfortunately, as demand went up, the number of organic producers and the acreage of organic farms declined, leading to fears that soon demand would outstrip supply.
(15) The government did not publish the overall domestic security budget, which has outstripped military spending in recent years.
(16) But now 86% of the world’s population lives in countries where the demands made on nature - the nation’s “ecological footprint” - outstrip what that country’s resources can cope with.
(17) The very day after the PM pledged to back HS3, London mayor Boris Johnson announced that the Treasury had pledged to half-fund Crossrail 2 – at a price far outstripping the sums designated for the trans-Pennine links.
(18) Since pay growth only started to outstrip inflation again at the end of last year – after six years in which the real value of wages fell by about 8% – household finances remain on Labour’s side .
(19) When the latest GDP figures appear next month, the UK could outstrip the US, which has propped up the world economy since the financial crash of 2008.
(20) A more significant factor in the therapeutic advantage of KLH conjugation could be that immunization with BCL1 IgM-KLH led to an earlier induction of the anti-idiotypic response than immunization with BCL1 IgM and, as the BCL1, lymphoma divides rapidly, the speed of induction of the immune response may be important in outstripping tumor cell growth.