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outranks

verb

present tense third-person singular of outrank

as in outweighs

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

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Recent Examples of outranks The issue is that many leaders operate in environments where urgency consistently outranks reflection. — Allison Mais, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 The durable strategy is to build a body of authoritative, technically sound content that outranks the problem and holds its ground after the news cycle moves on. — K. H. Koehler, USA Today, 29 July 2026 That Texas outranks California tracks with a broader demographic and economic realignment the Census Bureau has been documenting for years. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 May 2026

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outweighs

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In Los Angeles, three weeks of good baseball far outweighs six months of poor performance.

— Katie Woo, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026
In some projections, that extra snow outweighs the ice lost to the warming ocean, and the ice sheet actually grows.

— Robert Kopp, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026

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