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A country that can outbuild and outsupply its rivals is hard to defeat.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

And it means, as much as possible, repeating the president’s State of the Union exhortation for students, teachers, scientists and business executives to “out-innovate, outeducate and outbuild the rest of the world.”

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2011

Moreover, if Hitler beats us, the totalitarian powers will possess airplane building facilities, naval and shipbuilding dockyards and industrial resources all over Europe ... which will enable them vastly to outbuild your own defensive preparations.

From Time Magazine Archive

With "mingled admiration and fury," the King banished Fouquet to a fortress and decided to outbuild everyone in the known world.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the effect was that of a Northern victory; for the Merrimac was balked of her easy prey, and the North gained time to outbuild the South completely.

From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by Wood, William Charles Henry