Harriet Harman

Well, if you look at the programme that we're offering, I think that is a future which is fair for women as well as men. We're still heavily outnumbered - we're still four to one in parliament - but we are pioneers! We are forging a new path.

British Politician

Edward Everett

General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance.

American Statesman

Mel Robbins

We want to believe that we live in a world where our daughters can do anything and be anything. And you'd think they could - they outnumber boys in college, graduate school, and the work force.

American Journalist

Nicholas D'Agosto

One thing I wasn't quite aware of is that when you are extremely outnumbered by a lot of girls, and they become comfortable, it is outrageous what kind of stories they tell behind closed doors.

American Actor

Maggie Smith

It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.

British Actress

Jane Smiley

I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

American Writer

Rumaan Alam

When I look at the list of my favorite works, writers who are women do tend to outnumber writers who are men for whatever reason.

American Author

Aristotle

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Greek Philosopher

Maggie Kuhn

By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

American Activist

H. L. Mencken

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

Outnumber typically implies a significant difference in quantity, not just one or two more.

Contextual Nuance

'Outnumber' can be used figuratively to emphasize the overwhelming nature of something.

Non-literal Use

Use 'outnumber' when comparing two groups or quantities directly against each other.

Comparative Contexts

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 the captain readily agreed. The adventure would be his last. Overconfident and severely outnumbered, Magellan's force was overwhelmed, and the native's bamboo spears ended the captain's life. Yet the voyage had to continue. Magellan's will specified that Enrique should be freed,

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 probably the defining moment is when the Titanes feels like its life is in danger once the terror bird gets the idea that it's in a sense outnumbered at a strategic level it's probably not going to expend this energy over that carcass

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 into Earth orbit, where they will not only outnumber, literally outnumber the visible stars in the sky, while also beaming invisible light back to Earth. So for astronomers like me, who use invisible light to study the universe,

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 To name just one example, patterns of activity between neurons are likely influenced by a type of cell called glia. Glia surround neurons and, according to some scientists, may even outnumber them by as many as ten to one.

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 If you look at the statistics -- these are worldwide statistics -- in every single age category, women actually outnumber men in their use of social networking technologies. And then if you look at the amount of time

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 just seven billion you can see that we actually have a whole world of microbes or even a universe of microbes that's just inside and on ourselves these microbes even outnumber our own

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 outnumbered he soon turns tail while spotted dolphins leave the banks to feed in deeper water bottlenose fish the shallows these empty shallows may not seem a

Bully Bottlenose...

 moment he's completely outnumbered but then backup arrives steamer ducks the most aggressive in the world the heat

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 So what does he look like? The world's most typical person is male Males outnumber females but just barely