How to Use outpace in a Sentence

outpace

verb
Definition of outpacenext
Synonyms for outpacenext
  • The increase in housing costs in the last five years outpaced wage gains.
    — Mike Gousha and John D. Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Warm records far outpace cooler ones and the gap is growing.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2022
  • But iPhone revenue will outpace unit sales growth thanks to the price increase.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Over the past two decades, health care costs have far outpaced inflation.
    — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2024
  • And wage growth for workers has outpaced price increases over the past year.
    — Jonathan Swan, New York Times, 8 June 2024
  • She’s already outpaced her sales for the entirety of last year.
    — Megan Sauer, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The tech-heavy Nasdaq has been outpacing the broader S&P 500 by a wide margin.
    — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Four-year colleges outpace two-years on total costs, but not by much.
    — Rebecca Griesbach | , al, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Sheriff’s deputies driving 45 mph couldn’t outpace the flames.
    — Jennifer Oldham, ProPublica, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The stock has soared 34% this year, far outpacing the broader Hang Seng Index's 1.5% gain.
    — Josh Mitchell, WSJ, 31 July 2023
  • Kansas City home prices have outpaced the increases in both states.
    — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 1 May 2024
  • That will happen when Indian growth is tipped to outpace China’s in a big way in 2023.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • At some point, demand for a product needs to outpace spending.
    — Bill Alena, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
  • But in many of these places, housing supply has outpaced demand.
    — Meaghan Tobin, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • But the eviction filings increase has outpaced the Valley's growth.
    — Catherine Reagor, The Arizona Republic, 24 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Those ticket sales outpace the original film, which earned $240 million in the country.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Deaths have outpaced births in Japan for more than a decade, posing a growing problem for leaders of the world’s fourth-largest economy.
    — Chris Lau, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024
  • As global demand for seafood has doubled since the 1960s, the appetite for fish has outpaced what can be sustainably caught.
    — Ian Urbina, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • The law also requires pharmaceutical companies to provide rebates when the prices of certain drugs outpace the rate of inflation.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The increase in home equity also has outpaced cumulative inflation over four years.
    — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2024

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