outrun
Example Sentences
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Engineers call this problem the "memory wall," where processing speed outruns the chip's ability to feed it data.
From Science Daily
By culling the bears -- which can weigh up to half a ton and outrun a human -- officials hope to stem the threat across parts of northern Japan.
From Barron's
Stock-market booms always end the same way: Optimism outruns reality, capital floods in — then prices correct.
From MarketWatch
The boat crews try to slip past or outrun whatever Colombia and the U.S. put in front of them: coastal patrol boats to frigates and helicopters farther out.
To outrun tariffs, though, it is standing still.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.