outrun
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A million dollars’ worth of running shoes, and yet these suspects couldn’t outrun the law.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
Many parents - like Bajash - are trying to outrun both war, and poverty.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Unable to outrun or outthrow other players, Tom Brady had to outwork and outsmart them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
"Our strategy was to outrun the vortex dynamics," says Eryin Wang.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
Yet it did not occur to him now to try to escape, to outrun Voldemort.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
The author outruns the evidence when he claims the NFL was “designed for gambling.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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
My pulse outruns the seconds, each beat bringing me closer to capture.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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
Instead of having fluctuating populations that periodically outran their resources and starved, they maintained smaller populations that enjoyed an abundance of food in good years and a sufficiency in bad years.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
“Companies’ ambitions for truly autonomous agents are outrunning governance infrastructure, signaling that leaders need to act now to meaningfully benefit from this trend down the line.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The rate of inflation crested above 4% in May to a three-year high, briefly outrunning the typical increase in workers’ wages.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 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
He escaped them and ran northward over the land towards the Ice, outrunning all who pursued him.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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