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outnumber

verb as in exceed in quantity

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With more than 12,000 species, they outnumber birds and mammals.

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They are outnumbering Ukraine’s unmanned aerial vehicles in key sections of the front, while using improved tactics that are testing Ukraine’s ability to keep its front-line defenders supplied.

Below the domes and spires of a colonial metropolis, a discernible transfer of power is evident, as khadi-clad Congress volunteers outnumber pith-helmeted policemen and army soldiers.

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“Tough, tiny, starving and stressed out,” microbes survive and thrive to outnumber the stars in the universe—and can live for thousands, perhaps millions of years.

In Fidelity’s universe of 52 million retirement accounts, men outnumber women by a factor of two to one, he said.

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