outrun
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"Our strategy was to outrun the vortex dynamics," says Eryin Wang.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
His job was to tell them not to put too much into cash versus other investments, because cash can’t outrun inflation in the long run.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
"Left unchecked, it could outrun our ability to understand and control these systems, and so must be pursued very carefully, if at all," Amodei wrote.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
But as global temperatures break the threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels with no signs of stabilizing, adaptation alone can’t outrun climate change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
She can’t truly outrun her future, but you can’t tell her body that.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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
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
Stock-market booms always end the same way: Optimism outruns reality, capital floods in — then prices correct.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 2, 2025
It’s a prime example of how food still outruns overall inflation in the European Union.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
Boy21 outruns, outshoots, outjumps, and outdribbles everyone on the court.
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
Nine days in February that revealed how the most powerful technology in human history outran every institution built to contain it.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 13, 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
“His ambition outran his ethics,” Mr. Koenig said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2024
He’d gone out for football and there was a good feeling when he caught one of Jerry Renault’s passes and outran everybody for a score.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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
The AI spending boom is outrunning Wall Street estimates, Trump considers changing capital-gains taxes, China’s property crisis isn’t over, and more news to start your day.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
The rate of inflation crested above 4% in May to a three-year high, briefly outrunning the typical increase in workers’ wages.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Some see an economy at risk of overheating, with demand outrunning what the Fed’s current rate setting can restrain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
“We beat them. You listen to me and you be happy, Todd Hewitt. We’ve spent all this time outrunning an army and guess what? We outran them.”
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
