outnumber
verb
out·num·ber
ˌau̇t-ˈnəm-bər 
outnumbered; outnumbering; outnumbers
: to exceed in number
Examples of outnumber in a Sentence
With 20 girls and 10 boys in the class, girls outnumber boys by 2 to 1.
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
They were surrounded and outnumbered four to one by North Vietnamese forces.
—Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Advertisement That erosion in women’s power is particularly noteworthy for a state where women outnumber men among registered voters and the first female House speaker and first female vice president each got their start in the hothouse of San Francisco politics.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
But, at least to my parental eye, the similarities can seem to outnumber the differences.
—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2024
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“Outnumber.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outnumber. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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outnumber
verb
out·num·ber
(ˈ)au̇t-ˈnəm-bər
: to be more than in number
girls outnumber boys in the class
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