outstrip
verb (used with object)
to outdo; surpass; excel.
had outstripped
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past perfectof outstrip.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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But after weeks of assuring residents that fear of the virus had outstripped the actual danger, New York’s governor and mayor abruptly shifted course.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 13, 2020
“We had an early season, and the cloudberries ripened really fast,” said Björkman, adding that the berry season had outstripped the arrival of the pickers, who came too late.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2018
But Chief Judge Timothy M. Tymkovich seemed uncomfortable with that result, noting that history had outstripped the treaty, signed some 40 years before Oklahoma became a state.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2017
New ONS figures have revealed that, for the first time in five year, the growth in average earnings, excluding bonuses, in the most recent financial quarter had outstripped inflation.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2014
Mr. Rogers, followed by a stream of little Rogerses, bounded out and up the path like a comet that had outstripped its tail.
From Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins
