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outmatch

[out-mach] / ˌaʊtˈmætʃ /


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Court reporters outmatch the technology in skill, but their profession faces another crisis: a shortage of workers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 14, 2026

"If you add up our economies, we outmatch Russia 25-to-one," he said.

From BBC Feb. 17, 2024

Cameron, speaking after talks with Colonna in Paris, said that if the economies of Ukraine’s Western partners are calculated together, “we outmatch the Russian economy by 25 to one or more.”

From Seattle Times Dec. 19, 2023

The Kremlin has boasted that the Kinzhal can fly at speeds up to Mach 10 and would outmatch the weapons of any adversary.

From Washington Times May 18, 2023

Yet Birge underestimated Robert Sproul, one of the few people who could outmatch Ernest Lawrence in cajolery.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Last year, I described her as a member of “pop’s middle class”: a group of internet-beloved artists creating music that makes winking reference to pop history, whose celebrity vastly outmatches their commercial success.

From New York Times May 22, 2024

But the need far outmatches the number of new homes.

From Seattle Times Aug. 27, 2023

If you think of the rate of evolution, it just outmatches anything, including proprietary competitors that might have hundreds of millions of billions of dollars behind them.

From The Verge Mar. 15, 2022

Fullerton student Emiliano Perez played “VR Showdown” at Knott’s Berry Farm recently and said it outmatches the virtual soccer games he plays on his home Xbox system.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2017

Gravitation vastly outmatches this repulsion in the body of the comet, but yields to it in the case of gases, because electrical force varies with the surface, while gravitation varies only with the mass.

From A History of Science — Volume 3 by Henry Smith Williams

The result was a single, wholly outmatched excavator coming to the mountain of masonry that had been the Al-Zaharnah home, where Mutaz and at least six others were still interred.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

Analysts have said Microsoft’s Xbox consoles and Game Pass subscription service are underperforming and being outmatched by competitors, including smaller, cheaper rivals like the Nex Playground active game system.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 20, 2026

Taiwan's coastguard is massively outmatched by China's fleet, the largest in the world.

From Barron's Nov. 11, 2025

The most uncomfortable truth of the last four days has been how quickly firefighting efforts were overwhelmed and outmatched by the extreme fire conditions, Cohen said.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 11, 2025

Against such power, even Titans and giants were hopelessly outmatched.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

The Flamingo can fly for over 1,800 miles and carry a warhead of over 2,500 lbs, outmatching the Scalp in range and payload.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll said the system is “absolutely incredible,” outmatching comparable U.S. platforms.

From The Wall Street Journal May 23, 2026

As streaming services vie with Hollywood for credibility and prestige they've thrown huge amounts of money at directing talent - often far outmatching anything a legacy studio can offer - with success.

From BBC Mar. 6, 2024

For years, the jail system had rotated incarcerated people in and out of housing areas on a regular basis, seeking to prevent detainees from banding together and outmatching correction officers.

From New York Times Dec. 31, 2021

‘Then come, and let your brother go with us, and some other of your folk who is most swift! For we have need of speed greater than any wind, outmatching the wings of the Nazgûl.’

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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