as in exceeds
to go beyond the limit of our expenses have been outrunning our revenues for some months now
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Recent Examples of outruns Pat McGrath Labs, once valued at over $1 billion, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in early 2026, underscoring how even culturally beloved brands can hit financial limits when momentum outruns sustainable business execution. —
Essence, 3 Mar. 2026 The result is a fractured information ecosystem where virality matters more than truth, speed outruns verification and public understanding is shaped less by facts than by whoever captures attention first. —Editorial, Boston Herald, 1 Feb. 2026 In the original 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark movie, Harrison Ford in the iconic opening scene outruns a boulder in a jungle chase sequence. —Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 31 Dec. 2025 On the very next play, Jackson scrambles out of the pocket and outruns every defender for a 24-yard touchdown. —Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 4 Oct. 2025 Williams simply outruns Newsome. —Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
Essence, 3 Mar. 2026 The result is a fractured information ecosystem where virality matters more than truth, speed outruns verification and public understanding is shaped less by facts than by whoever captures attention first. —Editorial, Boston Herald, 1 Feb. 2026 In the original 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark movie, Harrison Ford in the iconic opening scene outruns a boulder in a jungle chase sequence. —Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 31 Dec. 2025 On the very next play, Jackson scrambles out of the pocket and outruns every defender for a 24-yard touchdown. —Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 4 Oct. 2025 Williams simply outruns Newsome. —Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
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People who didn't opt for electronic payment and whose settlement amount exceeds $5 will receive a check in the mail, according to the settlement website.— Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
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Authorities have not yet officially disproven, for instance, some link between these three deaths, but any conceivable connection or sense of a coordinated series of assassinations quickly exceeds imaginative powers.— Dan Adler, Vanity Fair, 22 Apr. 2026
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Blue Origin, founded and owed by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, has landed and reused its smaller New Shepard suborbital booster numerous times, but New Glenn surpasses New Shepard in difficulty and scale.— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 19 Apr. 2026
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This show, which still prompts belly laughs from my daughter and me even after countless rewatches, meets and surpasses my mother’s bar.— Jean Garnett, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2026
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“Outruns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/outruns. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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