How to Use outcompete in a Sentence

outcompete

verb

• Weeds will encroach and outcompete the grass in the summer.
  — oregonlive, 26 Mar. 2023
• Why doesn’t one species outcompete all the others for that spot?
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2011
• All else held equal, this variant will have a leg up on its kin, and may outcompete them.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 June 2021
• The unsuspecting vireo will then raise the cowbird chicks, which grow faster than its own and outcompete the vireo nestlings for food.
  — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2024
• The big question is whether or not Omicron will outcompete Delta.
  — CBS News, 5 Dec. 2021
• In prairies, fires clear out woody plants and shrubs that outcompete smaller plants for light and nutrients.
  — Popular Science, 29 Jan. 2020
• The best way to prevent crabgrass is to maintain a healthy, thick lawn that outcompetes and excludes crabgrass.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 30 July 2023
• That small change allowed the viruses that carried it to outcompete all others.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
• Charles Darwin was perhaps the first to posit the idea that introduced species might outcompete natives.
  — Amy Crawford, Smithsonian, 9 Jan. 2018
• Exacerbating the problem is the bigleaf lupine will hybridize with the wild lupine and outcompete the pure native wild lupine.
  — Jennifer Rude Klett, Journal Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2023
• Renewables won’t outcompete coal all year round, at least not yet.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2019
• Typically, the cowbird egg would hatch first, and the larger chick would outcompete the smaller vireo chicks for food—or simply push them out of the nest.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2022
• Our best hope is to prove that clean energy can outcompete Big Oil and the Big Tobacco playbook.
  — Wal Van Lierop, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• And there is no way that 330 million people can outcompete the Chinese or even compete with the Chinese without allies around the world.
  — CBS News, 27 Nov. 2019
• Just a transient visitor or here to outcompete the native species?
  — Guest, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2014
• In fact, if left unchecked, honeybees can outcompete native bees for pollen and nectar.
  — Scott Kirkwood, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
• First, the big-headed ants outcompete native acacia ants in the genus Crematogaster.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2024
• Should a new, more infectious variant emerge and outcompete the others, Krauland says, infections could rise sharply again.
  — WIRED, 9 Nov. 2022
• In warmer soils, fast-growing grasses and willow shrubs can outcompete the slower-growing mosses, lichens and dwarf shrubs that were prevalent before the fire.
  — Randi Jandt, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2021
• Otherwise, shade-tolerant plants, like red maple and sweet gum, outcompete the local species.
  — Jamie Dickman, Popular Science, 14 June 2023
• Eventually, a variant will become so dominant that none other will be able to outcompete it and the pace of change will slow down, Karim said.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2021
• The filter feeders eat plankton and small fish, outcompeting other fish for food.
  — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2023
• Research on similar products in the U.S. has shown that if there is an intense dry spell, the safe Aspergillus strain may not be able to outcompete the toxin-producing forms.
  — Jori Lewis, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2017
• Whether voters in the midst of a boom move left or right, many residents say the strains of change are deep, as farms and ranches on the city’s edge get chewed up into housing, and high-wage tech workers outcompete the locals.
  — Kirk Johnson, The New York Times, idahostatesman, 14 May 2018
• Over time, there should be fewer ways for an altered SARS-2 virus to outcompete other forms and undermine vaccines.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 4 Mar. 2021
• What’s more likely is that as the number of Neanderthals dwindled, they were outcompeted.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 28 Dec. 2023
• But if that’s the case, why do tangle-web spiders act in ways that might conflict with an individual’s drive to outcompete its neighbors?
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Oct. 2014
• With a similar diet to D. avus, dogs may have helped speed the foxes’ extinction by outcompeting them.
  — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
• Or the seaweed might outcompete other organisms, shifting which plants and animals can live in the surrounding ocean.
  — Bywarren Cornwall, science.org, 29 Aug. 2024
• The invasive fish take a catastrophic toll on the environment and outcompete native fish by eating nearly half their body weight each day.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 2 July 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024