Thesaurus results for OUTRUNNING

outrunning

verb

present participle of outrun

as in exceeding

to go beyond the limit of our expenses have been outrunning our revenues for some months now

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Recent Examples of outrunning But Collins, who is running for a sixth term, has a history of surviving tough reelection battles and outrunning other Republicans. — Taurean Small, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026 Concerns that the administration is outrunning the courts The judges’ frustrations have also centered on the speed with which the administration is pushing ahead on the projects with little regard for the approvals needed to pursue such work. — Gary Fields, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026 Some of the skills needed to make data center components are even outrunning the trade schools, like the specialized welding skills needed. — Kevin Williams, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2026 My own read, after two years of watching vendor roadmaps slip and then compress again, is that the hardware is still outrunning the software. — Dax Grant, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026 The stock jumped another 8% in late July after second-quarter earnings beat estimates, outrunning Salesforce and Workday in the same rally. — Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2026 His peers of the mid-19th century were outrunning their critics and the old strictures of colonial imitation. — Steven Johnson, Washington Post, 14 July 2026 The Times reported that Dela Rosa had been in hiding for months but that he was seen publicly on Monday in the Senate building when surveillance cameras captured footage of him outrunning agents seeking to arrest him. — Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026 And his rider, Flavien Prat, has a knack for outrunning the odds with his mounts in Triple Crown races. — Steve Kornacki, NBC news, 1 May 2026

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Bianco’s representative last week filed a claim for damages exceeding $10,000.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
Apple's new foldable iPhone Duo is off to a strong start, with delivery wait times exceeding three months.

— Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2026

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But in terms of student achievement, Asian students have performed more like white students, frequently surpassing white students academically.

— Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
Simulating real-world quantum errors Last year, JUPITER simulated a full 50-qubit universal quantum computer under ideal, noiseless conditions, surpassing the previous 48-qubit record established by Jülich researchers in 2019 on Japan’s K computer.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026

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