outpace
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Overall turnout appears on track to outpace 2020, or even 2018, which beat the 1914 record for overall turnout in a midterm election.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
"The global beauty market, once again, proved its resilience in a challenging context -- and we continued to significantly outpace it," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
For real wages to go up, people’s earnings have to outpace inflation.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
Such a development could compress years of progress into months or less and outpace humans’ ability to understand it, the authors said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
There was no point in trying to outpace the CCD boat; they’d have to hide, and the only hiding place in sight was a wooded hill with an overgrown grassy space just above the waterline.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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His MLB-best 1.095 on-base-plus-slugging percentage over that span outpaces American League Triple Crown hopeful Yordan Alvarez by 67 points.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
These layoffs come as New York outpaces the San Francisco area in recruiting tech talent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
This rate of growth dramatically outpaces normal household expenses, medical care, and even housing over the same multidecade period, it says.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Ashkanazi said on the call that when it comes to AI, "the demand still outpaces that investment".
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
She quickly outpaces me, and seconds later, I’m behind her by at least six feet.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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Experts say the trend is a response to Japan's prolonged wave of inflation, with prices having outpaced wage growth for years.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
They then used 24 estimates of the world population stretching across the past 2,000 years to show that human numbers have in fact continually outpaced expectations.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
Resilience in industrial activity helped underpin the wider economy in the second quarter, when growth outpaced the U.S. on an annualized basis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
But here’s your daily reminder that humans are primates whose still-evolving brains are exponentially outpaced by technological advancement.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026
With a power of perception that far outpaced his era, Burnham recognized that the tiniest details would shape the way people judged the exposition.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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Last week alone, cases jumped by 8%, with 330 infections reported, outpacing the entire total of cases in 2024, in which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention counted 285 cases.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026
The year-over-year increase in restaurant prices during September, outpacing both grocery inflation and wage growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
That brought the fund’s gain this year to a massive 37% in dollar terms, far outpacing what the S&P 500 has delivered so far.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
As soybean farmer David Schacht begins his fall harvest, surging diesel and fertilizer costs are fast outpacing his earnings.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
By dawn, the advancing soldiers could see figures all around them in the half-light, armed men running through the surrounding fields, outpacing the British in their rush to get to Lexington.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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