outpaced

verb

past tense of outpace
as in overtook
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.

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Recent Examples of outpaced During the trial, the prosecution presented evidence of Capone’s extravagant lifestyle, while the defense argued that Capone’s expenses and gambling losses outpaced his income. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Oct. 2026 The company outpaced analyst estimates and raised its full-year forecast. — Justin Zacks, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026 Housing, health care, education, caregiving, and everyday costs have outpaced wage growth for decades, leaving households with less room to save. — Steven John, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026 The Air outpaced every laptop in this chart on both single- and multi-core CPU processing speeds. — Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 11 Oct. 2026 O’Hare’s consulting and solicitation budget of $47,000 outpaced Simmons’s $34,000. — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Oct. 2026 In April, Americans for Financial Reform’s Education Fund released a study stating that the bank’s mortgage rejection rates for minorities in Charlotte and North Carolina far outpaced those of white applicants. — Chase Jordan october 7, Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 2026 The healthcare industry added 17,000 jobs in September, which outpaced every other sector but came in below a monthly average of 33,000 jobs over the previous year, BLS data showed. — Max Zahn, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026 According to data from the Africa CDC, the current outbreak has outpaced the two-year West Africa regional outbreak in terms of spread in the same time. — Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outpaced
  1. overtook
  2. drove
  3. surpassed
  4. outstripped
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  • The fire overtook soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, and Army reservists conducting live-fire training.
    — Rob Gillies, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Shawn Curtis and his dog Lux escaped through Curtis' bedroom window when waves overtook his apartment.
    — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of overtook
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  • The individual who inflicted the fatal injury drove the spear downward through the victim’s left chest cavity from the front, piercing major arteries and the lungs before creating the hole in the left scapula.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Ohtani drove the Struggle Bus into Game 3, having struck out seven times in 20 playoff at-bats, with only three singles and no extra-base hits and no RBIs.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
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  • Released late last year, the short by writer-director Martin Hemingway-Moseley has surpassed 600k views on YouTube, maintained a 99% approval rating and has a strong following across social platforms.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
  • In 2023, traffic fatalities (336 in total, including 179 pedestrians) surpassed homicides for the first time in a decade.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of surpassed
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  • Since Western Australia’s Argyle Mine closed in 2020, the demand for pink diamonds has outstripped a rapidly dwindling supply.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The ecommerce upstart, which quickly outstripped legacy rivals like H&M and Zara in online apparel sales during the pandemic, saw its New York, then London, listing aspirations unravel amid mounting regulatory and political scrutiny.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 25 Aug. 2026
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“Outpaced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outpaced. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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