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The rabbit had no chance of outrunning the dogs.
His motorcycle could outrun any car on the road.
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Max Goldbart, Deadline, 24 Jan. 2025
Like every other art museum in Texas, the MFA started late in the blue-chip art chase, but this tortoise, turbocharged with oil money, often outruns the Yankee hares.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 16 Jan. 2025
Even so, many retailers are seeing sales near historic highs, with the annual sales growth outrunning the 2.6% inflation rate.
—J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2024
Even accounting for this, though, Democrats had stronger incumbents than Republicans did: 10 Democratic senators outran Harris by more than 3 points, while only two Republican senators (John Barrasso and Pete Ricketts) outran Trump by more than that amount.
—Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2025
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Max Goldbart, Deadline, 24 Jan. 2025
Like every other art museum in Texas, the MFA started late in the blue-chip art chase, but this tortoise, turbocharged with oil money, often outruns the Yankee hares.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 16 Jan. 2025
Even so, many retailers are seeing sales near historic highs, with the annual sales growth outrunning the 2.6% inflation rate.
—J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2024
Even accounting for this, though, Democrats had stronger incumbents than Republicans did: 10 Democratic senators outran Harris by more than 3 points, while only two Republican senators (John Barrasso and Pete Ricketts) outran Trump by more than that amount.
—Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2025
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outrun
verb
out·run
(ˈ)au̇t-ˈrən 
outran
-ˈran
; outrun; outrunning
; outrun; outrunning
1
: to run or go faster than
2
: exceed sense 1
our needs outran our funds
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