Thesaurus results for OUTRUNNING

outrunning

verb

present participle of outrun

as in exceeding

to go beyond the limit of our expenses have been outrunning our revenues for some months now

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Recent Examples of outrunning The reflex read on a $45 billion commitment is that spending is outrunning revenue. — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026 The stock jumped another 8% in late July after second-quarter earnings beat estimates, outrunning Salesforce and Workday in the same rally. — Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2026 His peers of the mid-19th century were outrunning their critics and the old strictures of colonial imitation. — Steven Johnson, Washington Post, 14 July 2026 The Times reported that Dela Rosa had been in hiding for months but that he was seen publicly on Monday in the Senate building when surveillance cameras captured footage of him outrunning agents seeking to arrest him. — Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026 And his rider, Flavien Prat, has a knack for outrunning the odds with his mounts in Triple Crown races. — Steve Kornacki, NBC news, 1 May 2026 Cutting off a guy’s finger and stitching a tiny bomb into someone’s chest is essentially the same as remembering how to put together a gun or outrunning a horde of bad guys. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Apr. 2026 Moffa says the first step in navigating grief is to stop outrunning it. — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 26 Feb. 2026 George gathers a defensive rebound, and Sarr, who starts this sequence underneath his defensive backboard, sprints upcourt, outrunning his Knicks counterpart, Karl-Anthony Towns. — Josh Robbins, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026

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For comparison, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s largest foundry, began mass-producing 7nm chips in 2018 and can achieve yields exceeding 90%, depending on factors including chip design and die size.

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026
As shown on the chart, the load curve in 2026 surged significantly in late June, briefly exceeding 125,000 megawatts.

— , CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026

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Last year, the New York metro area’s tech workforce reached 394,300, surpassing the Bay Area’s 375,730, according to a report from CBRE.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
Okta soared more than 20% after surpassing analyst expectations and reporting booming demand due to agentic AI.

— Justina Lee,Alex Harring, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026

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