Synonyms of outpaces

outpaces

verb

present tense third-person singular of outpace

as in overtakes

to go or grow faster than (something)

Population growth has continued to outpace job growth for the last several decades.

The demand for the product has outpaced the company's ability to produce it.

Related Words

• overtakes
• surpasses
• drives
• outstrips
• accelerates
• outruns
• chases
• speeds
• rushes
• jumps
• races
• hastens
• hurries
• cracks (on)
• barrels
• scuttles
• hurls
• rips
• scurries
• travels
• scoots
• hurtles
• buzzes
• catches up
• careens
• tears
• courses
• motors
• blows
• careers
• belts
• bustles
• zooms
• whisks
• trots
• hustles
• flies
• blazes
• rustles
• gallops
• hies
• rockets
• steps
• jets
• scampers
• rams
• bowls
• blasts
• shoots
• flits
• bundles
• dashes
• humps
• zips
• whirls
• fast-forwards
• hares
• nips
• breezes
• pelts
• bombs
• darts
• bolts
• runs
• whizzes
• beetles
• jogs
• hotfoots (it)
• stampedes
• highballs
• scuds
• quickens
• cannonballs
• streaks
• sprints
• scuffles
• steps out
• arrows
• beelines

Dissimilar Words

• lags
• lingers
• drags
• hangs (around or out)
• loiters
• pokes
• dawdles
• tarries
• shuffles
• slows (down or up)
• saunters
• ambles
• decelerates
• strolls
• dallies
• plods
• lumbers
• dillydallies
• crawls
• creeps

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of outpaces

This far outpaces what the existing electrical grid and its operators are prepared to manage. —Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025

Orforglipron will also be easier to manufacture at scale, which is crucial as demand for obesity and diabetes injections outpaces supply. —Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2025

But its sheer impact still heavily outpaces any other Chinese film ever made. —Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 22 Aug. 2025

In San Diego — where demand outpaces supply and permitting delays are often measured in years — this means more options for working families, more middle-income housing, and better tools for cities to meet their housing needs without losing local oversight. —Chris Ward, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025

Even seasoned executives can be shaken when a crisis outpaces standard protocols. —Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025

Greiner also noted that the number of people who are 65 and older and own a home far outpaces the rest of South Florida. —Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 18 Mar. 2025

Technology regularly outpaces human evolution, and the online experience of non-stop global disasters seems to be way beyond our processing power. —Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024

The problem is that my book-buying habit outpaces my ability to read them. —Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 28 Dec. 2022