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    1. years, the store outgrew the first location and


    2. Collect stories in the press of celebrities who wet the bed as children but outgrew it (celebrities will sometimes mention this sort of thing - or their biographers will - in interviews)


    3. Temujin never outgrew the cruel ways he learned as a youth, he only excelled at


    4. ‘’We once cultivated such kinds of beliefs, thousands of years ago, but we thankfully outgrew them once we realized how tiny a part of the Universe we were


    5. In the end, they outgrew this universe and went off to explore new horizons


    6. Now I am the irreverent poet, the shot dead gunslinger, the kid who outgrew the town of his upbringing, who limped away from heart, mind and soul in search of the tool forged in the fires of the dragons den, to express what truly happened back then:


    7. They outgrew their planets and moons and settled on the Orlandian worlds, which we advised them not to


    8. LANs were originally designed to support only a relatively small number of computers—30 for thin Ethernet networks and 100 for thick Ethernet—but the needs of businesses quickly outgrew these limitations


    9. After an encounter at a science fair with a seven-year-old girl whose prosthetic arm cost $80,000 (and would need to be replaced when she outgrew it), LaChappelle was inspired to turn his prototype into a practical and affordable device


    1. mally, one should outgrow body-based desires early in life


    2. Over the years I have seen too many parents in and outside of my courtroom who have said, “I wish I had done something sooner — I simply thought it was a phase and that they would outgrow the problem


    3. Men experience no such split as they outgrow the


    4. that most males are able to outgrow this low esteem and, as a group, arrive at a


    5. She had no way of knowing that she would outgrow this simple man


    6. have certain outfits that I would not want to outgrow


    7. “She said you told her that I didn’t want to outgrow my


    8. The difficulty people have had in assessing the origin of life results from misconceptions largely attributable to simplistic mythological perceptions that society has failed, and often refused, to outgrow


    9. Although Alexander would spend his abbreviated adult life fighting for fortune and fame, he was never able to outgrow the destructive state of conflict into which he was born


    10. that we instill in the early grades and never seem to outgrow

    11. some children may outgrow obesity, others carry it with them into their adult lives


    12. I don't recommend this one as highly as its partner, Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar, because I think that you will outgrow most of this book eventually


    13. However, those who have acquired the necessary maturity must outgrow this fear too


    14. sold to stores but they can quickly outgrow most tanks


    15. The last of the four pieces, « Outgrow, » attempts to summarize what is plausibly the


    16. But that which you outgrow


    17. After a while Nigel seemed to outgrow the space he had been provided and once again yearned for change


    18. to believe that a man could outgrow his humble beginnings


    19. When the orchids outgrow their containers and when the mix that the orchids are planted on is deteriorating, repotting has to be done


    20. Eventually, they’ll outgrow their current environment, and you will need a new space to put them in

    21. Although many studies are showing that there are cases and ways in which one can outgrow the problem of ADHD, the final results are still not very much on the mark


    22. Here it is, and we never can thank you enough for the patient sowing and reaping you have done," cried Jo, with the loving impetuosity which she never would outgrow


    23. Who knows how long until they outgrow that space!


    24. It could: enter a prolonged period of austerity, default on the debts, inflate away the debts, or experience a period of rapid growth where it is able to outgrow its debt burden


    25. This was my answer with respect to those youths who were bent on this pursuit, trusting that they would soon outgrow it


    26. In some it may attain an area of perhaps three-fourths or four-fifths of the larger; in others it may even outgrow the former outer circle


    1. Finally stopping amid an outgrowing shrub


    2. The show was outgrowing the walls that attempted to hold it


    3. It was a path, more densely packed with vegetation, but Yasi managed to burst through the thin outgrowing tree limbs and vines in its way


    4. circumvent the limitations it entails, rather than overcoming them, or outgrowing them


    5. “I’ve been accused more than once of never outgrowing the Sixties


    1. She tells me that the firm she works for has outgrown its offices and that they’re moving into new ones fairly shortly


    2. What matter were those figments of some computer’s imagination, puffing about their silly tribal pecking orders when he was standing on a world which had outgrown such savagery thousands of years in the past?


    3. clothing as the children had outgrown their old clothes


    4. I had no idea whom to call or how I’d get Max into the crate he’d outgrown


    5. a verdant landscape that had outgrown the disfiguring reach of


    6. Haven’t outgrown your teenage years yet I see


    7. legacy software that they have outgrown and


    8. That you have outgrown


    9. everything you have outgrown


    10. I have outgrown

    11. have any stairs, and Joseph had long since outgrown


    12. Once your group has outgrown that room or apartment and it has started to feel a


    13. Cador, after a few moments hesitation while he considered and rejected his god’s injunction against nudity, threw off the shorts and T-shirt that Edgar’s son had outgrown, then stood, hands covering his groin, suddenly embarrassed


    14. He’d outgrown his family the day he first went to the state Forest on his own, he now realised


    15. You may have outgrown them and are seeking new challenges, new interests or a new hobby


    16. The praiseworthy desire to preserve traditions of past achievement often leads to the defense of outgrown systems of worship


    17. Now you have come a long way because you have outgrown that


    18. The community had long outgrown the quarters they occupied and did everything they could to stretch their meager space—which was really quite large relative to what people in some parts of the world have


    19. What if she chose to seduce Anand to score over me and still keep it in the family; but soon as if to relieve me of my worry, like I distanced myself from Raju before, she came to cold-shoulder Anand, but for a different reason; while I avoided Raju imagining that I had outgrown him, I suspect that she began to shun Anand to disown her humble past


    20. least one or two entertainments that we have either outgrown or

    21. Other of the townspeople were quick to pass on to the boys articles of functional clothing that members of their own family had outgrown so the boys were spared those expenses


    22. I’m afraid my cousin’s aspirations have outgrown his means


    23. we have outgrown, things held onto purely for sentimental purposes and those items


    24. Butterflies know when to hold on and when to let of things they have outgrown in


    25. comment that he'd "outgrown having to have one-on-one contact


    26. constitutes a waste of attention, and seeking to relive lessons already outgrown is plausibly


    27. outgrown it, at last emerging into the real world


    28. Maybe your family has outgrown the kitchen table and you want to replace it with


    29. Sitting on the floor in their living room, with Adam coloring dinosaurs nearby, she saw the fire from his college days rising again in her husband and wondered whether she had outgrown that kind of passion


    30. The orchid has outgrown its container when the moss that it is planted on is already compact

    31. The drama had by this time outgrown market-place stages and


    32. Jo accepted it with a smile, for she had never outgrown her liking for lads, and soon found herself involved in the usual labyrinth of love, mystery, and murder, for the story belonged to that class of light literature in which the passions have a holiday, and when the author's invention fails, a grand catastrophe clears the stage of one half the dramatis personae, leaving the other half to exult over their downfall


    33. Pratt, I think--nay, I am sure, it would never have happened; for though I left Longstaple with what I thought, at the time, a most unconquerable preference for his niece, yet had I then had any pursuit, any object to engage my time and keep me at a distance from her for a few months, I should very soon have outgrown the fancied attachment, especially by mixing more with the world, as in such case I must have done


    34. There are many ideas in your mind that you have outgrown, and which, from force of habit you still permit to dictate the actions of your life


    35. Then last year at the Catholic hospital, when Mom had asked for a few minutes alone with Dad, he’d parked the outgrown stroller in the gift shop, Abe and Izzy inside, and snuck over to the chapel off the lobby to sit there with his hands in his lap


    36. Had his former Shakespeare professor not invited him to come up like this for a job interview, he might still be back there in the bedroom he’d outgrown, turning his paper hat in his hands, the most literate short-order cook in northeastern Georgia


    37. His Mother was due to be transported to the Plantations after her Lyin’-in, but by some Stratagem escap’d, Martin with her, an’ resum’d her Life o’ Crime, bringin’ the Boy up in the Trade ere his Swaddlin’ Clothes were outgrown or his Bum dry


    38. one she had outgrown


    39. In the company’s short existence, it’s grown so quickly that the three founders have outgrown their office space five separate times! Their first location was in the basement of a dentist’s office (where they used boxes as a makeshift desk for their first employee)


    40. "He has outgrown them

    41. Pratt, I think—nay, I am sure, it would never have happened; for though I left Longstaple with what I thought, at the time, a most unconquerable preference for his niece, yet had I then had any pursuit, any object to engage my time and keep me at a distance from her for a few months, I should very soon have outgrown the fancied attachment, especially by mixing more with the world, as in such case I must have done


    42. I have never outgrown the wild grandeur of the sea


    43. She has only the old black velvet, and she has outgrown it


    44. He was dressed in a rather shabby old overcoat, which he had monstrously outgrown


    45. Humanity has outgrown its social, political age, and has entered upon a new one


    46. If a man, in consequence of the higher consciousness matured in him, is no longer able to comply with the demands of the state, no longer finds room in it, and at the same time no longer is in need of the preservation of the political form, the question as to whether men have matured for the change of the political form, or not, is decided from an entirely different side, and just as incontestably as for the chick that has picked its shell, into which no power in the world can again return it, by the men themselves who have outgrown the state and who cannot be returned to it by any power in the world


    47. No matter what arguments men may adduce in proof of the danger of abolishing the power of the state and that this abolition may beget calamities, the men who have outgrown the political form can no longer find their place in it


    48. And, no matter what arguments may be adduced to a man who has outgrown the political form, about its indispensableness, he cannot return to it, cannot take part in the affairs which are denied by his consciousness, just as the full-grown chicks can no longer return into the shell which they have outgrown


    49. Humanity has outgrown its social, its civic age, and has entered upon a new epoch


    50. A man who has outgrown the State can no more be coerced into submission to its laws than can the fledgling be made to reënter its shell










    1. It does seem to be that by the time the kid outgrows the tree-house the tree outgrows the tree-house


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    "outgrow" definitions

    grow too large or too mature for


    grow faster than