Used in a Sentence

outweigh

How to use outweigh in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for outweigh.

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As long as you feel the benefits outweigh the downsides the only person you can complain to is yourself. You're still going there aren't you?

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Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

be heavier than

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of outweigh gathered in one view.

verb

be heavier than

verb

weigh more heavily; "these considerations outweigh our wishes"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for outweigh.

verb

be heavier than

Example sentences

1

As long as you feel the benefits outweigh the downsides the only person you can complain to is yourself. You're still going there aren't you?

2

Your enjoyment will far outweigh performance differences that will be minor in 99% of real world cases.

3

The advantages of being a large organisation might not always outweigh the disadvantages. What if it's not us that get left behind, but them?

4

Still, for most purposes, the benefits almost certainly outweigh the harms. I think future generations will look back on this as a moral failing of our time.

5

It's up to each person whether or not to decide if those benefits outweigh the costs of eschewing different employment. Also, lots and lots of ad hominem.

6

But a lot of people seem to love the syntax, and that seems to outweigh the negatives for them. I personally don't find JavaScript that ugly, but coding in a language I can't ever fully understand gives me a huge headache.

7

The advantages of the web will naturally outweigh any possible native program advantage.

8

Those benefits outweigh the benefits of completing the project faster, but only for projects that have these sorts of overriding concerns. There's more you can do, but those two steps are probably all you need to start consistently landing part-time gigs.

9

A more compelling solution is to create incentive structures that encourage "bad executives" to be good ones, such as incentives which outweigh the short-term gains gotten by reducing, say, IT spending. For instance, I've heard it suggested that companies use long-term equity, say 15 years out.

10

They're again put in a situation where their personal risks outweigh any benefits they stand to gain. Even for executives that consider themselves ethical, they can still rationalize that minimizing risk to the shareholders is the ethical decision.

11

Since the majority of websites even today work relatively well in IE[6-8], the inconvenience of occasional breakage does not outweigh the inertia of IE[6-8] users. Even among people who call themselves programmers, I know of plenty who just don't bother to install updates.

12

I can only believe that YCombinator’s positive reputation will outweigh whatever negative reputation that they have fairly or unfairly received.

13

Yes, it's subjective to say "the cachet of working at Penny Arcade doesn't outweigh the negatives of this job, and the fact that the posting tells you up front that it's a shit job doesn't change that," but the author certainly makes a good case as to why he believes that. Is it conjecture to say that Khoo wants to pay under market rate for one job that should really be done by more than one person at market rate?

14

Apparently the consensus on hacker news is that there exists a repository size N above which the benefits of splitting the repo _always_ outweigh the negatives. And, if that wasn't absurd enough, we've decided that git can already handle N and the repository in question is clearly above N. And I guess all along we'll ignore the many massive organizations who cannot and will not use git for precisely the same issue.

15

Concurrent constructs, but the benefits -- high performance, explicit-no-magic-code -- outweigh the cute factor in this "programmer's" book. - On the other hand, there are plenty of things you can do in Java that are simply impossible to do in Go. - Once we factor in the possibility for bytecode engineering, then Java is simply in another higher league as far as language capabilities are concerned.

16

So a while back the benefits didn't outweigh the "huge downside" that he found the screen size of the Galaxy SII, but now that Apple increases their screen size "the software benefits that come from that extra half an inch hugely improve the experience of using the phone." The continually disappointing thing about the iPhone coverage has been people who dismiss things as not needed until Apple gets around to implementing them.

17

His assumption is that libertarians value ridiculous personal freedoms more than the environment, and thus spends his time explaining how much the externalities of wood burning outweigh whatever silly freedom I may be concerned with this week. This is equivalent to patronizing someone who is for drug legalization by explaining to them that, actually, drugs are bad, and that's why they need to be illegal silly.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use outweigh in a sentence?

As long as you feel the benefits outweigh the downsides the only person you can complain to is yourself. You're still going there aren't you?

What does outweigh mean?

be heavier than

What part of speech is outweigh?

outweigh is commonly used as verb.