How to Use outearn in a Sentence

outearn

verb

• But, these days, Williams outearns her off the court, too.
  — Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2019
• Moreover, college graduates outearn high-school grads — to the tune of seven figures over a lifetime — and for decades have seen stronger wage growth as well.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 11 July 2019
• By way of comparison, bachelor’s-degree holders outearn high-school grads by something like a million dollars over the course of their lives.
  — The Editors, National Review, 19 Nov. 2020
• Even as women have started to increasingly outearn their partners, the thought of a woman paying for her own ring still feels wildly taboo.
  — Bethany Rutter, Glamour, 8 Jan. 2019
• His research suggests that doing so in order to boost a child’s chances to outearn their parents is unlikely to be successful.
  — Rachel M. Cohen, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2017
• Especially when research shows that among box office hits, movies about women outearn movies about men.
  — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• The racial wage gap is smaller, for example, in state and local governments, and in some places more educated black workers outearn white ones.
  — Bryce Covert, Longreads, 24 Sep. 2019
• But the study finds that in communities in which most families are affluent and white, and in which adult men far outearn women in income, girls continue to lag behind their male peers in math achievement.
  — Alia Wong, The Atlantic, 18 June 2018
• Kanye West is a hugely successful rapper, designer, and producer, but Kim still outearns him.
  — Megan Friedman, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 July 2018
• Over 64% of mothers are co- or primary breadwinners, defined as married or unmarried women who either outearn their partners or bring home at least a quarter of the household's income through their wages.
  — Lisa Selin Davis, CNN, 1 Dec. 2020
• For blacks, the American dream—defined as upward mobility and a better life than our parents’ generation—has a caveat: Don’t outshine, outearn or outperform whites.
  — C. Nicole Mason, The Root, 1 July 2017
• When numbers were controlled for education, Pew Research reports that white males outearned every group of men except Asian men, and white women make more money per hour than every group of women except Asian women.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 22 June 2018
• Whatever their reason for taking up gig work, Boomers on Wonolo are outearning any other age group, with average monthly earnings in the Bay Area of $1,003 a month, according to that company’s analysis of the users on its platform.
  — Leonardo Castañeda, The Mercury News, 28 June 2019
• In an unusual reversal of the gender pay gap, female chief executives at some of the largest U.S. companies repeatedly outearn their male counterparts.
  — Joann S. Lublin, WSJ, 31 May 2017
• Numbers show that, generation by generation, people are becoming less and less likely to outearn their parents.
  — Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 16 June 2021
• More women outearn their husbands, which causes friction for millennial couples.
  — Ashley Shaffer, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024