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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Nesbitt said demand for support had outstripped supply for some time, with a substantial number of families on waiting lists and a growing number of children on the edge of care.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2024
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
He had outstripped them, had left them far behind, and his words sprang to his lips with a glad sense of victory and freedom.
From Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 by Various
