outnumber
verb
out·num·ber
ˌau̇t-ˈnəm-bər 
outnumbered; outnumbering; outnumbers
: to exceed in number
Examples of outnumber in a Sentence
With 20 girls and 10 boys in the class, girls outnumber boys by 2 to 1.
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Anantaajith Raghuraman, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
Military and law enforcement personnel far outnumbered citizens.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 20 Jan. 2025
The plane will be smaller than the average passenger jet—no more than 80 seats—but far faster, up to Mach 1.7, and, if popular enough, Scholl believes, eventually outnumber its bigger, slower, logier cousins.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 19 Jan. 2025
And at Meta specifically, men outnumber women and account for 62% of its global workforce, according to the company’s 2022 diversity report.
—Chris Westfall, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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“Outnumber.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outnumber. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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outnumber
verb
out·num·ber
(ˈ)au̇t-ˈnəm-bər
: to be more than in number
girls outnumber boys in the class
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