outrun
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"England can outrun Argentina but they just have that little genius Messi. They all play for him. Everyone should be excited," said BBC pundit Micah Richards.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
In faster-growing markets like Germany, the same doubts about data, quality and geopolitics haven’t disappeared—they’ve just been outrun, for now, by price.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
But when we’re just focused on Early, hoping to outrun Maddie’s demons in manic aerobics sessions of deliriously complex choreography, the movie feels like a spell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
There’s a good chance inflation will outrun wage growth for months or even the rest of 2026, economists say.
From MarketWatch ● May 15, 2026
It's clear that General Lee can outrun a police cruiser.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
Longer term, the opportunity could grow into something meaningful, Seigerman said, and if uptake outruns expectations, there is real upside.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
The ability to rapidly generate a counter-narrative, complete with the imprimatur of an “AI tribunal,” is tailor-made for an attention economy where perception often outruns verification.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026
Engineers call this problem the "memory wall," where processing speed outruns the chip's ability to feed it data.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 24, 2025
Stock-market booms always end the same way: Optimism outruns reality, capital floods in — then prices correct.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 2, 2025
Boy21 outruns, outshoots, outjumps, and outdribbles everyone on the court.
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
Nine days in February that revealed how the most powerful technology in human history outran every institution built to contain it.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 13, 2026
Nike outran expectations in its latest quarterly report.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
Enten noted that no party outran the polls three election cycles in a row nationally or in key battleground states since 1972.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2024
“His ambition outran his ethics,” Mr. Koenig said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2024
“Let’s sit. Sitting is great. Everyone likes sitting, even active people. Do you run competitively or something? Because you were hauling ass across the parking lot. I think you outran a Tesla at one point.”
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
Some see an economy at risk of overheating, with demand outrunning what the Fed’s current rate setting can restrain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
"In a market that has grown used to asking whether AI expectations have become too inflated, Micron's answer was blunt: demand is not fading; it is outrunning supply," said SPI Asset Management's Stephen Innes.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
For someone who spent years outrunning love, I was surprised to learn that when I stopped spiraling in my mind, I could finally trust what my body already knew.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
Yet the fear of AI appears to be vastly outrunning reality, based on current labor-market trends and also the long historical record of new technologies.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 1, 2026
A number of predators — wolves, pumas, and coyotes — prevented the deer from outrunning their food supply.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson