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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outgrow.

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Examples

  • The potential for decentralised systems in the long term outgrows that of the power sector.

    Chapter 10 2000

  • The trick is that her target audience is forever: is a woman "outgrows" a Jackie Collins novel, which tends to focus on the seamy side of Hollywood, then an young girl is just getting old enough.

    The News is NowPublic.com - World: just in Jordan Yerman 2010

  • The trick is that her target audience is forever: is a woman "outgrows" a Jackie Collins novel, which tends to focus on the seamy side of Hollywood, then an young girl is just getting old enough.

    The News is NowPublic.com - World: just in 2010

  • These incidents only become more common as children get older and taller, which is why it is important to move your child from a crib to a bed as soon as he or she outgrows the crib.

    Cribs, play yards and bassinets provide false sense of security 2011

  • Therefore, evolutionary progress does not mean that a species outgrows all of its problems and proceeds to live in an earthly paradise.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • It is content and happy, and when it outgrows its enclosure, the government simply builds it a newer, grander, and ever bigger facility.

    John Feffer: Worshiping the Sacred Pig of the Pentagon John Feffer 2011

  • It is content and happy, and when it outgrows its enclosure, the government simply builds it a newer, grander, and ever bigger facility.

    John Feffer: Worshiping the Sacred Pig of the Pentagon John Feffer 2011

  • It is content and happy, and when it outgrows its enclosure, the government simply builds it a newer, grander, and ever bigger facility.

    John Feffer: Worshiping the Sacred Pig of the Pentagon John Feffer 2011

  • It is content and happy, and when it outgrows its enclosure, the government simply builds it a newer, grander, and ever bigger facility.

    John Feffer: Worshiping the Sacred Pig of the Pentagon John Feffer 2011

  • Therefore, evolutionary progress does not mean that a species outgrows all of its problems and proceeds to live in an earthly paradise.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

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