OUTPACING Synonyms: 102 Similar and Opposite Words

outpacing

verb

present participle of outpace

as in overtaking

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 outpacing While fragrance may have been the fastest-growing category in the spring of 2025, hair is now outpacing it, as well as the growth of the beauty industry overall. — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026 Nobody denies it's had a great run, up 82% since the start of 2025, outpacing the 33% advance for the NYSE Arca Pharmaceutical Index, known as the DRG. — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026 The city of Detroit is outpacing that trend, with 7% of ballots returned as of Tuesday, the Secretary of State says. — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026 The survey does not offer an explanation for why the United States appears to be outpacing its peers on trust. — Nicholas Florko, STAT, 10 Oct. 2026 Horror lovers have more options for wide releases today, but the genre isn’t dramatically outpacing other kinds of theatrical films. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2026 More than a dozen members of The Athletic’s MLB staff turned in their votes, and their opinions were fairly split, with Milwaukee barely outpacing the two-time defending champions. — The Athletic Mlb Staff, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2026 Cost burden – spending more than 30% of income on housing – is common among lower-income renters in Hazelwood, part of a national pattern of rising housing costs outpacing incomes. — Ira Goldstein, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026 The value of those holdings grew ninefold over the past year, outpacing tokenized funds and ETFs. — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2026

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If Manning was actually named 'Joe Smith', Steve Sarkisian would have already given the backup quarterbacks at least a shot at overtaking Arch Manning as the starter.

— Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026
Pants that hang off the hips in a very low-effort way are overtaking high-rise jeans in popularity.

— Bianca Kratky, Glamour, 8 Oct. 2026

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Biggs has accused the Hobbs administration of driving up home prices with stringent water requirements that stalled new buildings in parts of the Phoenix area.

— Hannah Knowles The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
No amount of spending from whatever PAC source is driving it into the elections are going to change that dynamic.

— NBC news, NBC news, 18 Oct. 2026

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That would see her in the role into January 2029, surpassing Sarah Sanders’s time of almost two years in the job.

— Rob Crilly, The Washington Examiner, 13 Oct. 2026
That’s easily the most for any calendar year since AAA started tracking in 2000, surpassing the prior record of 158 in 2022 during the Biden administration, much of which was attributed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

— Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of surpassing

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The company has become one of the biggest winners of the artificial intelligence build-out, with demand for memory chips far outstripping supply.

— Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026
By September’s end, GOP advertisers had more than doubled their spending compared with August, outstripping Democrats, according to tracker AdImpact.

— Justine McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026

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