Example Sentences

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For a short time it seemed they had outrun the threat by getting to the city of Lviv, close to the Polish border.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2022

By mid-June, Hidalgo worried that the virus had outrun their best efforts.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2020

I didn’t like admitting it, but since my time with Rocky, I’d become a bit of a skeptic: maybe the hype had outrun the reality.

From Salon • Dec. 30, 2012

Industry innovation, as it often does, had outrun and overpowered the government's regulatory prowess, with disastrous results.

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2010

The course of the war had outrun work on the bomb, rendering the Allied scientists’ concerns about a Nazi bomb program increasingly irrelevant.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik