as in exceeding
to be greater in importance than
in most elections the state of the economy outweighs all other issues
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Recent Examples of outweighing
The compelling argument is the Yankees possess enough hitting to survive with Verdugo’s glove outweighing a bat that skidded for the most of the past three-plus months.
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Larry Fleisher, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Imposing harsher punishment on repeat offenders drove that support, far outweighing voters’ desire to increase overall prosecutions or deter future crime, the survey found.
—Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
Larry Fleisher, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Imposing harsher punishment on repeat offenders drove that support, far outweighing voters’ desire to increase overall prosecutions or deter future crime, the survey found.
—Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Outweighing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outweighing. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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