Thesaurus results for OUTRAN

outran

verb

past tense of outrun

as in exceeded

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

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Recent Examples of outran Thierry Henry curved away from defenders, Cristiano Ronaldo attacked their blind side and Kylian Mbappe outran them. — Amelie Claydon, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026 Worthy outran Kader Kohou for a score that got a rise from the fans in attendance. — Kansas City Star, 30 July 2026 In the $200,000 San Clemente Handicap 35-1 longshot Somerset West (Armando Ayuso) outran nine other 3-year-old fillies, including three formidable challengers who shipped in from the east. — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2026 Then Pulisic outran the defense and buried a goal off a pass from Ricardo Pepi. — Tim Rohan, NBC news, 1 June 2026 For decades, sales teams often outran product teams. — Lior Weinstein, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026 Counting Stars has gone off as the favorite in three of her last four starts and outran her 11-1 odds in a second in the Grade 3 Honeybee. — Geoff Clark Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026 Buck’s Boy outran a stellar field of European and North American grass horses to take the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Turf in 1998 and was voted North America’s champion male turf horse. — Neil Milbert, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026 Reuters noted that earlier this month, robots in Beijing outran human runners in a half-marathon race. — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026

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The city's spending on the two cases has therefore already exceeded the contract cap by $382,000.

— Brian Maass, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
An Allegheny River site southeast of Ohio exceeded that benchmark every time it was tested.

— Gabby Sartori, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of exceeded

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The average two-bedroom rent in the city has now surpassed New York City, traditionally the nation’s most expensive city for rents.

— Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
The government has spent nearly all of its full-year allocation for fuel subsidies already, after oil prices surpassed the $85 benchmark that the estimate was based on.

— Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 17 Aug. 2026

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