Example Sentences

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Engineers call this problem the "memory wall," where processing speed outruns the chip's ability to feed it data.

From Science Daily • Dec. 24, 2025

Stock-market booms always end the same way: Optimism outruns reality, capital floods in — then prices correct.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 2, 2025

It’s a prime example of how food still outruns overall inflation in the European Union.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2023

The second book in Reynolds’ engrossing and big-hearted series about the members of a track team focuses on a speed-demon girl who outruns challenges on the track and at home.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2017

Boy21 outruns, outshoots, outjumps, and outdribbles everyone on the court.

From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick