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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
outpass .
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Examples
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"Of course Gramm was totally right in that the gloom and doom rhetoric far outpasses any actual bad current economic outcomes"
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Of course Gramm was totally right in that the gloom and doom rhetoric far outpasses any actual bad current economic outcomes, but totally wrong in the sense that when you want a bunch of whiners to vote for your candidate so that you can get a cushy government job the last thing you should do is call them a bunch of whiners!!
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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Of course Gramm was totally right in that the gloom and doom rhetoric far outpasses any actual bad current economic outcomes, but totally wrong in the sense that when you want a bunch of whiners to vote for your candidate so that you can get a cushy government job the last thing you should do is call them a bunch of whiners!!
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And that I think is where Pixar has outpasses everyone else.
Pixar Makes Bolt? Steve Hulett 2008
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Remember that I used this very same word miracle of Shakespeare, meaning again that the total Shakespeare quite outpasses my comprehension; yet Shakespeare, too, on occasion talks stark nonsense, or at any rate stark bombast.
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Yes, imagine the pain of an Arsenal game in which one team completely outpasses the other, humiliates them to a barely imaginable degree, and contrives not to win.
The Guardian World News Rob Smyth 2010
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Y A Raheem, president of the Indian Association Sharjah (IAS), told TOI over telephone that most of the workers seeking outpasses had been cheated by their employers.
The Times of India 2009
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"All those who have applied want to go back to India and we are processing their applications for issuing outpasses," the official said on Monday.
The Times of India 2008
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Babylonish dialect), this far outpasses the raillery of Sterne's
A Prince of Bohemia Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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