OUTSTRIPS Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

outstrips

verb

present tense third-person singular of outstrip

as in exceeds

to be greater, better, or stronger than before he had reached his teens, the child prodigy had outstripped his music teacher's abilities

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loses (to)

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Recent Examples of outstrips Uber’s practice of lifting fares when demand outstrips the supply of available drivers, such as during rush hour, is a type of dynamic pricing known as surge pricing. — Dee-Ann Durbin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026 Uber's practice of lifting fares when demand outstrips the supply of available drivers, such as during rush hour, is a type of dynamic pricing known as surge pricing. — Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026 While that distribution model has remained unchanged since Blazy’s arrival, the process has come under growing scrutiny as demand for key runway looks often outstrips supply. — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2026 Much of this debt has funded investment that has generated progressively lower—even negative—economic returns, including excess residential real estate, underutilized infrastructure, and manufacturing capacity that far outstrips demand. — Michael Pettis, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2026 To begin with the good, the Unibook far outstrips the port offerings of the MacBook Neo or the new XPS 13. — ArsTechnica, 24 Aug. 2026 Saudi consumer loans grew ninefold since 2000, to 477 billion riyals — a pace that outstrips both population growth and GDP expansion. — Wael Mahdi, semafor.com, 21 July 2026 Her playful language scrambles to keep pace with a reality that forever outstrips it. — Literary Hub, 16 July 2026 That outstrips the net gain of $666 billion investors took home from the last decade of startup investing, says Meghan Reynolds, managing partner at tech fund Altimeter. — Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026

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On the mound for Milwaukee was Misiorowski, a beanstalk of a pitcher whose fastball routinely exceeds a hundred and three miles per hour.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
The panel exceeds 100% sRGB, as many OLED monitors do, which can occasionally result in an overblown image.

— Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of exceeds

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Tarrant County saw a dip in early voters on Wednesday, but the number of people turning out locally still surpasses Texas’ last midterm election.

— Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Oct. 2026
Brady, who has 187 regular-season victories, surpasses Hall of Famer Brett Favre (186) and Peyton Manning (186) for the most regular-season victories by a starting quarterback in NFL history.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026

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