outrun
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We don’t want to hear commencement speeches about how we cannot outrun AI domination because they trivialize the work we have done ourselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
"The market is increasingly rewarding companies that expand revenue while maintaining spending discipline, and penalising those whose ambitions have outrun their balance sheets," said Fabien Yip at IG.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
But when we’re just focused on Early, hoping to outrun Maddie’s demons in manic aerobics sessions of deliriously complex choreography, the movie feels like a spell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
They don’t have to outrun the bear, they just have to be faster than whatever normie investor gets suckered into buying SpaceX when it enters the index without being properly seasoned.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
Eventually they succeeded, but by the time they did, Van de GraafFs technology had been outrun by something entirely new.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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
As you’d expect at this time of year, I’m writing to you from chilly Des Moines, where I just outran some serious snow to cover the final week before the caucuses.
From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2024
Though exhausted after nearly two days without sleep, Enrique outran both of them.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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
"In a market that has grown used to asking whether AI expectations have become too inflated, Micron's answer was blunt: demand is not fading; it is outrunning supply," said SPI Asset Management's Stephen Innes.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
For someone who spent years outrunning love, I was surprised to learn that when I stopped spiraling in my mind, I could finally trust what my body already knew.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
It scudded across the moon, and with a deadly cry went away westward, outrunning the wind in its fell speed.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
