outstrip
Example Sentences
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“Geopolitical risk runs counter to the International Energy Agency forecast that supply will outstrip demand by 3.8 million barrels a day in 2026.”
“There are some significant supply issues,” Lundin at the Gold Newsletter said of industrial demand outstripping supply of mined silver.
From MarketWatch
I discovered that column shortly after graduating, when my love of food far outstripped my paycheck in public media.
From Salon
Because demand far outstrips supply, there is a waiting list for the roughly 1.2 million new watches the company sells a year, based on Morgan Stanley’s latest estimate.
Today, its reserves of about 300 billion barrels of oil are counted as the largest in the world, outstripping even those of Saudi Arabia.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
