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
  • Wallen outpaced Bad Bunny in streams from Tampa this year and claimed his No. 3 spot.
    — Yacob Reyes, Axios, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Last year, the District surpassed 200 homicides for the first time in over a decade, and the city is on track to outpace that grim milestone this year.
    — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 1 June 2022
  • 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
  • Lumen Christi got off to a relatively slow start, but used a big third quarter to outpace the Shamans.
    — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • That far outpaces the warming trend nationally, which saw a rise of 2.5°F, the analysis found.
    — Kale Williams, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The share of Washington children getting flu vaccines fell this year, with the state's decline far outpacing the drop nationally, according to new CDC data.
    — Melissa Santos, Axios, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Its quarterly results for both key metrics outpaced expectations in all four earnings reports released this calendar year, which includes the fourth quarter of 2023.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 27 Dec. 2024

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