outpace
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"They're quick and strong, just running with them they'll outpace you," her teammate Daisy, from east Belfast, said.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Sales outpace Wall Street expectations as defense business comes through while commercial airplane sales miss mark.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
“New rules are needed for this new tech frontier—not to stifle innovation, but to make sure our innovations do not outpace our protections,” Texas Republican Rep. Nathaniel Moran wrote on social media.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Should those hold, the numbers would outpace the previous year.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
I prayed that Death would not outpace my trusty friend.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
Ashkanazi said on the call that when it comes to AI, "the demand still outpaces that investment".
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
“This is a natural direction for Sony Interactive Entertainment to adapt to consumer trends as the general preference for digital media significantly outpaces physical discs,” said Sid Shuman, Sony’s senior director of content communications.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
Finance chief Tim McHugh’s pay outpaces that of many CEOs and surpasses the Tesla CFO’s $139 million pay package in 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
His $167 million pay package in 2025 not only dwarfs that of his CFO peers but also outpaces the compensation of many CEOs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
She quickly outpaces me, and seconds later, I’m behind her by at least six feet.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
Wages outpaced inflation in June, after two straight months where price growth beat wages.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Still, on Thursday, the company reported same-store sales increased 7% in the second quarter, marking the ninth consecutive quarter of same-store sales growth that outpaced industry averages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
The social-media platform’s earnings outpaced Street estimates, but that wasn’t enough for investors.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
That outpaced the average 76% of all adults saying they saw at least one movie in theaters.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Yet the increase in births still outpaced the increase in deaths; humans kept having larger numbers of children.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
Eight of those were lawyers licensed to practice law in California, outpacing the six cases reported in all of 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
The company added 448,000 domestic wireless lines during the quarter, outpacing the 379,000 analysts were expecting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Critical investments were needed to prevent adversaries from outpacing the US, he continued.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
But for complex reasoning tasks like managing AI agents, advanced coding problems and multistep research, frontier models perform better—even if by a small percentage—and that can make all the difference in outpacing the competition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Heading west, we surge onward, outpacing the pack.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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