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Definition of Outstripped
1. outstrip [v] - See also: outstrip
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outstripped
Literary usage of Outstripped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1885)
"Airain, in 1276, the bishop Franciscans, been equalled and were soon to settled
the question of jurisdiction between be outstripped, it might seem strange ..."
2. Chinese Immigration in Its Social and Economical Aspects by George Frederick Seward (1881)
"The Northwest has outstripped California. The relative numbers of the Chinese in
the State at different periods. The proportion of Chinese diminishing. ..."
3. Chinese Immigration in Its Social and Economical Aspects by George Frederick Seward (1881)
"The Northwest has outstripped California. The relative numbers of the Chinese in
the Slate at different periods. The proportion of Chinese diminishing. ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1903)
"The yield of the Kimberley mines, when American engineering methods were employed,
increased by leaps and outstripped the consumption, although an unlimited ..."
5. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"... than any other men in the world.1 Thus the value of the agricultural interests
of California very soon outstripped the value of its mining interests; ..."
6. Diary of Richard Cocks, Cape-merchant in the English Factory in Japan, 1615 by Richard Cocks, Edward Maunde Thompson (1883)
"Wickham was to " sell away, although something under cento per cento," and not
to be outstripped by his rivals. A junk was also fitted out with a cargo ..."
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