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outstrip

verb as in surpass

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Organisers said the funds were needed after maintenance and staffing costs had begun to outstrip budgets, and to replenish reserves that had run dry.

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Streeting said he was expecting "demand" for new weight-loss drugs to outstrip NHS supplies.

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Rowling’s “Harry Potter”—they far outstrip their peers in sales.

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“Income growth has continued to outstrip house price growth in recent months while borrowing costs have edged lower amid expectations that the Bank of England will continue to lower interest rates in the coming quarters,” said Nationwide’s chief economist, Robert Gardner.

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Aging infrastructure, short-term thinking, and ambitions that far outstrip its funding are just a few of the problems threatening the future of America’s vaunted civil space agency, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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