See outnumber in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "The striking aspect of clinicide is the scale of suspicious deaths with which it is associated, which outnumbers proven murders by an order of magnitude (in [Harold] Shipman's case, a factor of (240-15)#47;15#61;15), a figure that only hints at the enormous interpersonal disruption and family grief which follows in its wake.",
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"(transitive, stative) To be more in number than somebody or something."
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