outrun
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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
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“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
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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
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“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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