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has outgrown

  • present perfect of outgrow (3rd person singular).

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Rather, the volume of manuscripts has outgrown the capacity of the people who are supposed to evaluate them.

From Slate May 3, 2026

In the past decade, Stryker has outgrown its peers by 2.5 percentage points a year, so it is a share gainer.

From Barron's Jan. 16, 2026

Their anxiety has outgrown politics and become a way of being.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 12, 2025

“They are the acts of institutions that have realized that the system that they’ve designed has outgrown their control.”

From MarketWatch Nov. 7, 2025

She pronounces this word in a mocking drawl, to show that it’s the sort of word she herself has outgrown.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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