Etymology
Origin of outrange
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Rogel Aguilera-Mederos's 110-year sentence has sparked public outrange and 4 million people have signed a petition to asking authorities to grant him clemency or commute his sentence, according to 9News.
From Fox News ● Dec. 24, 2021
China’s air-to-air missiles outrange those of the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2016
Of course, this move was immediately met with outrange by fans who are now yelling to the rafters, “NBC is intentionally killing our show!”
From Forbes ● Jan. 16, 2015
German artillery uses 88-mm. and 105-mm. rifles, which outrange U.S. 105-mm. and 155-mm. howitzers.
From Time Magazine Archive
An archer so armed can outrange any wooden bow.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
A concertgoer carrying a pistol would have been vastly outranged by Paddock; pistols can barely reach targets 50 meters away.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2017
"Third—That the other eight American battleships—the Arizona, Pennsylvania; Oklahoma, Nevada, New York, Texas, Florida and Utah—are outranged by British ships by several thousand yards."
From Time Magazine Archive
On Nov. 12-13, when a U.S. force sank a Jap battleship, five cruisers, five destroyers and eight transports, the O'Bannon scored hits on a battleship and a cruiser which far outweighed and outranged her.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fleet, the Atlantic Squadron included: > The battleships Arkansas, Texas and New York, oldest in the Navy, whose 12-and 14-inch guns are outranged by the 8-inchers of modern cruisers.
From Time Magazine Archive
The shore batteries promptly returned the fire, but it soon became apparent that the guns on the ships outranged them.
From The Boy Allies under Two Flags by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
Milley said that the Russians have “demonstrated that they are outgunning and outranging Ukrainian artillery” so far in fighting in the eastern Donbas region, which has become the primary emphasis in Russian operations.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2022
He protested vigorously that his device was permissible, and he asked, in effect, how its use differed from the employment of outranging naval guns.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Black Fleet proceeded to fire on the forts and locks, outranging the land guns.
From Time Magazine Archive
And ever since, The Southern Review has been steadily outranging its merely regional beginning.
From Time Magazine Archive
The enemy was all this time steadily outranging our artillery with its big eleven-inch guns, popularly known as "Black Marias."
From The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres by Ernest W. Hamilton
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