outrun

Example Sentences

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Stock-market booms always end the same way: Optimism outruns reality, capital floods in — then prices correct.

From MarketWatch

The boat crews try to slip past or outrun whatever Colombia and the U.S. put in front of them: coastal patrol boats to frigates and helicopters farther out.

From The Wall Street Journal

To outrun tariffs, though, it is standing still.

From The Wall Street Journal

For all his brilliance, Oedipus was unable to outrun his fate, which in Icke’s version has less to do with the gods and more to do with animal instincts and social forces.

From Los Angeles Times

He doesn’t like the fact that she can outrun him.

From Los Angeles Times