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Definition of Outranking
1. outrank [v] - See also: outrank
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outranking
Literary usage of Outranking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Menace of Japan by Frederick McCormick (1917)
"... or not they were to become a coolie power, perhaps outranking China and Korea,
but not outranking Portugal or Mexico in foreign influence in East Asia. ..."
2. The Menace of Japan by Frederick McCormick (1917)
"... or not they were to become a coolie power, perhaps outranking China and Korea,
but not outranking Portugal or Mexico in foreign influence in East Asia. ..."
3. John T. Dorland by William King Baker (1898)
"But while this is so, there yet exists among men a new order of men, outranking
the natural man who is of the earth, earthy, almost as much as the Lord ..."
4. A Theory of Motives, Ideals, and Values in Education by William Estabrook Chancellor (1907)
"... outranking but not controlling the grammar (full elementary) school principals,
and these outranking and sometimes controlling the intermediate and ..."
5. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1867)
"The end was, that I was ordered to leave Washington with a colonel's commission,
outranking Harry two grades, the right to name my staff when I got upon the ..."
6. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1903)
"It was particularly an American year, books by our own writers far outranking in
numbers and in interest those taken from foreign sources. ..."
7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"... a hundred thousand and forming one of the largest and most complete collections
of fungi in the world, outranking any similar collection in America. ..."
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