as in to outweigh
to be greater in importance than one hard fact outranks a mountain of speculation anytime

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Recent Examples of outrank But for a commanding officer to encourage any two members of his command to hook up — never mind that SFC Kohl outranks Private Frasconi by several grades — seems wrong, right? Chris Klimek, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025 While the Southwest is the region seeing the fastest-warming spring, the fall actually outranks spring for the fastest-warming season in much of the Southwest and West. Andrew Freedman, Axios, 26 Feb. 2025 Duckworth served in the Army National Guard and retired as a lieutenant colonel (outranking Hegseth, a major). Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025 The figures felt all the more legitimate given the tech giant discounted home countries in its reporting, meaning that those with huge populations didn’t automatically outrank the real breakouts from smaller countries. Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 31 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for outrank

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“Outrank.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outrank. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.

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