Etymology
Origin of outleap
Example Sentences
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Cornell researchers combined soft microactuators with high-energy-density chemical fuel to create an insect-scale quadrupedal robot that is powered by combustion and can outrace, outlift, outflex and outleap its electric-driven competitors.
From Science Daily • Sep. 19, 2023
One expert skeptically recalls a Russian proverb: “He can’t outleap himself.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2023
The films of Alan Rudolph are prime examples of the art of movies—they don’t merely tell stories but also outleap them by way of imaginative artifice.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 30, 2019
Usually the Seahawks try to get Graham in one-on-one matchups with smaller defensive backs and let him use his size to either post up the defender or outleap them on a jump ball.
From Washington Times • Dec. 1, 2017
The beast could easily outrun, outleap, and outclimb them; that much was clear.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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