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A country that can outbuild and outsupply its rivals is hard to defeat.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

And it means, as much as possible, repeating the president’s State of the Union exhortation for students, teachers, scientists and business executives to “out-innovate, outeducate and outbuild the rest of the world.”

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2011

Ever since the U. S. became rich enough to have the power to outbuild Britain on the seas, successive Naval Conferences have seen British statesmen arguing for reduction of the maximum size of capital ships.

From Time Magazine Archive

Russian and U.S. highway gangs compete, in trying to outbuild one another.

From Time Magazine Archive

They set the Germans trying to outbuild the British fleet; more fortunately they were an inspiration to naval enthusiasts in this country also.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 22, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir