Example Sentences

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These prospects appear to have outweighed its ongoing financial troubles, boosting shares 84% this year against a 4.7% gain for the S&P 500.

From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026

The geopolitical tensions in the Middle East have outweighed oil-surplus concerns, ANZ Research analysts say in a research report.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

The researchers surmise that the physical, mental, or socioeconomic challenges that low-SES individuals or adults in poorer health experience may have outweighed any possible cognitive benefits from life satisfaction.

From Science Daily • Sep. 29, 2023

Dividing up the house, the money and the family looked daunting; the gains might not have outweighed the losses.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2022

The poem is boyish, or at all events youthful, in point of conception; and we need not wonder that this intellectual crudeness should have outweighed its finished poetic beauties in its author's mind.

From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Orr, Sutherland, Mrs.