How to Use outpace in a Sentence
outpace
verb-
The increase in housing costs in the last five years outpaced wage gains.
— Mike Gousha and John D. Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2024 -
Global heat records outpace cold records — 2023 was the hottest year on record by a huge margin.
— Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2024 -
Warm records far outpace cooler ones and the gap is growing.
— Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2022 -
But iPhone revenue will outpace unit sales growth thanks to the price increase.
— Chris Smith, BGR, 6 Sep. 2022 -
Over the past two decades, health care costs have far outpaced inflation.
— Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2024 -
And wage growth for workers has outpaced price increases over the past year.
— Jonathan Swan, New York Times, 8 June 2024 -
She’s already outpaced her sales for the entirety of last year.
— Megan Sauer, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2024 -
The tech-heavy Nasdaq has been outpacing the broader S&P 500 by a wide margin.
— Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2023 -
Four-year colleges outpace two-years on total costs, but not by much.
— Rebecca Griesbach | , al, 20 Mar. 2023 -
Sheriff’s deputies driving 45 mph couldn’t outpace the flames.
— Jennifer Oldham, ProPublica, 27 Dec. 2022 -
The stock has soared 34% this year, far outpacing the broader Hang Seng Index's 1.5% gain.
— Josh Mitchell, WSJ, 31 July 2023 -
Kansas City home prices have outpaced the increases in both states.
— Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 1 May 2024 -
That will happen when Indian growth is tipped to outpace China’s in a big way in 2023.
— William Pesek, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023 -
At some point, demand for a product needs to outpace spending.
— Bill Alena, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022 -
But in many of these places, housing supply has outpaced demand.
— Meaghan Tobin, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023 -
But the eviction filings increase has outpaced the Valley's growth.
— Catherine Reagor, The Arizona Republic, 24 Sep. 2024 -
They're sort of outpaced in terms of onboarding sellers.
— Lauren Goode Michael Calore, WIRED, 4 Apr. 2024 -
Since 2013, the toll from heat deaths in the county has outpaced casualties from any single weather event in the same year, and trends show the gap is widening.
— Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 31 Aug. 2023 -
The Chiefs’ nail-biter win overall outpaced other playoff games that took place last weekend.
— Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 27 Jan. 2024 -
The Journal wrote this week that companies may outpace new content by 2028.
— Wes Davis, The Verge, 6 Apr. 2024 -
June was a huge sales month for the brokerage and July numbers outpaced 2022 levels.
— Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 20 Aug. 2023 -
In 2022, utilities outpaced the Nasdaq by a record amount.
— Hardika Singh, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2023 -
The growth factor outperformed the value factor while small caps outpaced large caps.
— Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023 -
Those ticket sales outpace the original film, which earned $240 million in the country.
— Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 12 Feb. 2023 -
Deaths have outpaced births in Japan for more than a decade, posing a growing problem for leaders of the world’s fourth-largest economy.
— Chris Lau, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024 -
As global demand for seafood has doubled since the 1960s, the appetite for fish has outpaced what can be sustainably caught.
— Ian Urbina, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024 -
This is why largemouths in southern fisheries outgrow their counterparts in the North, outpacing bass of the same age by a pound or more of growth each year.
— Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 28 Mar. 2024 -
Trump kept a light schedule in the final days of the race compared to Haley, who outpaced him with more than 40 events and flooded the airways with television ads.
— Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 25 Feb. 2024 -
That is likely tied to elevated prices caused by the hottest inflation in 40 years, which outpaced wage growth during the pandemic.
— Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 24 Oct. 2024 -
The increase in home equity also has outpaced cumulative inflation over four years.
— Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2024
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