How to Use outpace in a Sentence

outpace

verb
Definition of outpacenext
Synonyms for outpacenext
  • Global heat records outpace cold records — 2023 was the hottest year on record by a huge margin.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Over the past two decades, health care costs have far outpaced inflation.
    — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The stock has soared 34% this year, far outpacing the broader Hang Seng Index's 1.5% gain.
    — Josh Mitchell, WSJ, 31 July 2023
  • That will happen when Indian growth is tipped to outpace China’s in a big way in 2023.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • But in many of these places, housing supply has outpaced demand.
    — Meaghan Tobin, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • They're sort of outpaced in terms of onboarding sellers.
    — Lauren Goode Michael Calore, WIRED, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Since 2013, the toll from heat deaths in the county has outpaced casualties from any single weather event in the same year, and trends show the gap is widening.
    — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The Chiefs’ nail-biter win overall outpaced other playoff games that took place last weekend.
    — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The Journal wrote this week that companies may outpace new content by 2028.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 6 Apr. 2024
  • June was a huge sales month for the brokerage and July numbers outpaced 2022 levels.
    — Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 20 Aug. 2023
  • In 2022, utilities outpaced the Nasdaq by a record amount.
    — Hardika Singh, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The growth factor outperformed the value factor while small caps outpaced large caps.
    — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • This is why largemouths in southern fisheries outgrow their counterparts in the North, outpacing bass of the same age by a pound or more of growth each year.
    — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Trump kept a light schedule in the final days of the race compared to Haley, who outpaced him with more than 40 events and flooded the airways with television ads.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Hog prices have been sliding amid concern pork supplies are outpacing demand for the meat.
    — Elizabeth Elkin, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The wage gains have outpaced inflation, though pay increases have slowed in recent months.
    — The Week Us, theweek, 17 Jan. 2024
  • With one trading day left this month, the Nasdaq is on track to outpace the Dow industrials by the widest margin in a single month in more than 20 years.
    — WSJ, 31 May 2023
  • For years, pension funds could count on their returns from the asset class outpacing that of public markets.
    — Swetha Gopinath, Fortune, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Surprisingly, one Texas market is outpacing the rest of the country in rent hikes.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 14 July 2023
  • But financial planners say investing—and taking the market’s highs and lows in stride—is still the best way to try to outpace inflation long-term.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2023
  • North Carolina’s population growth continues to outpace that of the rest of the country, and much of it has been led by people of color.
    — Nicholas Nehamas, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Meanwhile, wage growth has been outpacing inflation for the first time in years, a win for workers, especially those on the low end of the income spectrum.
    — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Prices in the category have outpaced inflation, surging 26 percent over the past four years.
    — Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
  • At least 34 Israeli soldiers have died in Gaza, outpacing the toll from previous wars.
    — William Booth, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
  • By June, however, the ship’s revenue had begun to outpace its expenses.
    — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Heat deaths have outpaced hurricane deaths in the country by more than 8-to-1 over the past decade, according to data tracked by the National Weather Service.
    — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 10 July 2023
  • Sales of its skin-care products outpaced cosmetics in the most recent quarter, spiking nearly 90%.
    — Jeannette Neumann, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024
  • At a time when the rate of data creation around the world will soon outpace the amount of storage space available, researchers are exploring the idea of saving information in strands of DNA.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2023
  • In the run up to the launch, advocates told ABC News that there were concerns the increase in contacts would outpace the lifeline's ability to answer amid funding and staffing challenges.
    — Kelly Livingston, ABC News, 16 July 2023
  • Just two months ago, the secondary market for luxury watches was able to outpace the stock market since 2018, as Robb Report covered.
    — Mario Abad, Robb Report, 27 May 2023

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