outrank
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Across nearly every demographic, two values almost always outrank family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
Here are a few quarters in software history that outrank Palantir’s latest results:
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
If they happened to outrank their doctor, they were considered a “high-power” patient.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2024
Nevada, Arizona and Colorado currently outrank Washington, according to Rutgers data.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2023
“Yes, sir. I may outrank you, sir, but you’re still my commanding officer.”
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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In his roughly 50 years preaching, Hutchinson says the anxiety he is hearing about AI outranks everything.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
“The paperwork outranks the will,” in military life, he says.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Gen. Zhang, as the CMC vice chairman, outranks Gen. Li, who was not in the PLA chain of command.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 30, 2023
Its cyclic winning structure ensures that no choice uniquely outranks any other.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 19, 2023
“Father doesn’t worry about which fork to use and who outranks who,” I groused.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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It was the first time in over a year that cyberattack fears outranked all other business threats, the survey said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
As the liner notes explain, Dylan is the third-most popular covered songwriter ever, outranked only by The Beatles and Duke Ellington.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2026
With audiences of 1.4 million each, both “America’s Newsroom” and “Outnumbered” outranked NBC’s daily “Today Jenna and Hoda.”
From Washington Times ● Sep. 6, 2023
In an Associated Press survey, 44% of U.S. voters polled named the future of democracy as one of their top concerns on election day, outranked only by inflation and the economy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2022
Though I knew there was human suffering out there, it wasn’t like there was a tragedy scale where some things outranked others, or that care given to a bonobo meant less left for people.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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It marked A24’s highest-opening weekend ever, outranking Alex Garland’s 2024 film “Civil War,” which earned a $25.5-million debut.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
Pears dropped to tenth place after outranking apples, blackberries and blueberries in 2025.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2026
In 2025, Wall Street analysts remain a bullish group, with Buy ratings vastly outranking Sell ratings.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
Polymarket was all over the Golden Globes, Jerome Powell is now under federal investigation, and Chinese universities are outranking us in scientific output.
From Slate ● Jan. 17, 2026
He also carried a military title, thus outranking Burr with his honorary designation as “General Hamilton,” based on his last appointment, that of inspector general of the New Army in 1799.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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