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  • verb Present participle of outgun.

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Examples

  • (AP) - In a game that lacked much defensive intensity, the New Orleans Hornets produced a season-high points total Monday night in outgunning the Sacramento Kings.

    USATODAY.com - Basketball - New Orleans vs. Sacramento 2006

  • What we have seen in recent cases is that the bad guys are simply outgunning our guys, Rivera said.

    Fatal shootings of police officers are on the rise 2011

  • * Concession of the day: Politico acknowledges in passing that conservative outside groups spending undisclosed money are outgunning those on the left, in a story bashing Dems who have made precisely that point.

    The Morning Plum Greg Sargent 2010

  • The elaborate stunt and special-effect sequences still manage to be breath-taking -- but it's probably useful (and pointless) to recall that much of the appeal of the original M:I (and at least the first couple of movies) was the element of outsmarting the villains (and the audience), as opposed to outrunning or outgunning him.

    Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol Marshall Fine 2011

  • It had been forming in the back of his mind as the modified prototype hardskin took him through the city, fighting off pursuit, outrunning and outgunning it until he got far enough away to break into an abandoned building and shuck the suit.

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

  • A series of national polls this year has shown support for same-sex unions outgunning opposition for the first time since polling on the issue began in the 1980s – a dramatic turnaround from even three years earlier, when voters in California approved a ballot measure overturning same-sex marriage.

    2011: A good year to be gay 2011

  • What we have seen in recent cases is that the bad guys are simply outgunning our guys, Rivera said.

    Fatal shootings of police officers are on the rise 2011

  • It had been forming in the back of his mind as the modified prototype hardskin took him through the city, fighting off pursuit, outrunning and outgunning it until he got far enough away to break into an abandoned building and shuck the suit.

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

  • "They're not outgunning us, but they are putting our soldiers in a predicament where 800 meters 2,625 feet may not be enough," said Col.

    New rifles give Army snipers in Afghanistan needed range 2010

  • The strategists adds, however, that national Dems are outgunning that with an Ohio buy topping $1,000,000 this week. print share

    VA-SEN: NRSC Sinks Nearly $1.5 million Into Ads Blasting Webb 2009

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