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outrun

[aut-ruhn] / ˌaʊtˈrʌn /
VERB
run faster than
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A million dollars’ worth of running shoes, and yet these suspects couldn’t outrun the law.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

Many parents - like Bajash - are trying to outrun both war, and poverty.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

But whether it’s fast enough to outrun its controversies remains to be seen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

"Our strategy was to outrun the vortex dynamics," says Eryin Wang.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

He grips a small bundle and doesn’t look strong enough to outrun border guards, yet that’s exactly what he did.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

“My grandmother told me the truth always outruns a lie. She taught me not to chase the lie, just give the truth time to catch it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Longer term, the opportunity could grow into something meaningful, Seigerman said, and if uptake outruns expectations, there is real upside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

The ability to rapidly generate a counter-narrative, complete with the imprimatur of an “AI tribunal,” is tailor-made for an attention economy where perception often outruns verification.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

Engineers call this problem the "memory wall," where processing speed outruns the chip's ability to feed it data.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 24, 2025

Boy21 outruns, outshoots, outjumps, and outdribbles everyone on the court.

From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick

When rates jumped in 2022 and 2023, those payments outran its income, and a central bank that used to mail the Treasury a check every week found it had nothing left to mail.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Nike outran expectations in its latest quarterly report.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025

Enten noted that no party outran the polls three election cycles in a row nationally or in key battleground states since 1972.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2024

As you’d expect at this time of year, I’m writing to you from chilly Des Moines, where I just outran some serious snow to cover the final week before the caucuses.

From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2024

I outran him, of course; and then here came Mama, running so fast that her long skirts were flying, and calling out: “What on earth, boys!” as I ran past her.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

“Companies’ ambitions for truly autonomous agents are outrunning governance infrastructure, signaling that leaders need to act now to meaningfully benefit from this trend down the line.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

It helps to have a dynamic, special athlete in junior receiver Jalen Flowers, who contributed one touchdown on a short pass, slipping away and outrunning helpless defenders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

"In a market that has grown used to asking whether AI expectations have become too inflated, Micron's answer was blunt: demand is not fading; it is outrunning supply," said SPI Asset Management's Stephen Innes.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

Yet the fear of AI appears to be vastly outrunning reality, based on current labor-market trends and also the long historical record of new technologies.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 1, 2026

“I suppose it’s either a matter of outrunning your shadow or staring it down in the light.”

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool


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