outpaced

past tense of outpace

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Recent Examples of outpaced Over the past decade, the United States’ tech sector has consistently outpaced China’s in AI, creating more than three times as many AI-focused companies. Jude Blanchette, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025 In February 2021, with most of Texas frozen, the demand for power outpaced the supply resulting in outages across the state that lasted days for some. Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Jan. 2025 For a team that has outpaced the expectations of nearly every preseason prognosticator, the Spurs hit January with a winning record that would have put them in the Western Conference Play-In Tournament had the season ended on New Year’s Day. Mike Monroe, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outpaced
Verb
  • In the first quarter of 2024, the United States narrowly overtook China as South Korea’s largest export market in 2024, in part a result of the Yoon administration’s encouragement of South Korean firms to move their operations out of China.
    Robert E. Kelly, Foreign Affairs, 30 Dec. 2024
  • If a wildfire overtook the lab, or Russia launched an attack on New Mexico, which represents the nexus of America’s nuclear-weapons complex, there would not be much for a lab technician to do.
    Abe Streep, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Nordstrom did report a third-quarter drop in net earnings, but there were increases in operating profits and sales revenues that surpassed Wall Street expectations.
    David Moin, WWD, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Mega Millions has hit and surpassed the $1 billion mark six times in the game's history, according to Mega Millions.
    Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Those lane changes and other turns all felt slightly weird not because of how the car drove but because of the absence of clicking-turn-signal sounds inside it.
    Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 8 Jan. 2025
  • After he was shot, the victim called 911 and drove to the Texaco station to wait on first responders to arrive, police said in a statement.
    Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Jan. 2025

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“Outpaced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outpaced. Accessed 14 Jan. 2025.

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