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out-statistic en · VERB
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of outstatistic.
Only in land area — and only then in a special sense — could the South, with its eleven states, out-statistic the twenty-two states of the North: 780,000 square miles as opposed to 670,000 in the area including Texas and the first tier of states west of the Mississippi.
2011, Shelby Foote, The Civil War Volume I: Fort Sumter to Perryville:You know we almost out-statisticked them ?
1975, Gerald Green, My Son the Jock, page 77:While the bureau with the best of good feeling and the best of faith, I believe, can sometimes out-statistic us, when it comes down to finalities you build more hospitals and they are occupied as fast as you build.
1927, United States. Congress. House. Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation, Hospital Building Program, page 146:Your Honor, you have become a budgetary expert. You shouldn't leave now. You can out-statistic any of us.
1981, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies, Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1982, page 347:
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