as in to exceed
to do or perform better than (someone or something)
The car consistently outperforms all other vehicles in its class. outperforming the competition
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Recent Examples of outperform
Now, Microsoft’s stock is up about 12% year-to-date (and 30% since April of this year), easily outperforming fellow tech giants such as Apple (AAPL), Amazon, Alphabet, and Nvidia (NVDA).
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Shannon Carroll, Quartz, 5 June 2025
After showing Stumpf’s picture, Kress pulled out a chart showing how Wells Fargo’s stock price had outperformed all of its big bank peers for the decade leading up to the scandal.
—Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 5 June 2025
But Abel outperformed even the highest of expectations.
—Peter Chawaga, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
By the beginning of the 21st century, TV revenue at both companies was dramatically outperforming the original newspaper business.
—Megan Greenwell, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2025
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Shannon Carroll, Quartz, 5 June 2025
After showing Stumpf’s picture, Kress pulled out a chart showing how Wells Fargo’s stock price had outperformed all of its big bank peers for the decade leading up to the scandal.
—Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 5 June 2025
But Abel outperformed even the highest of expectations.
—Peter Chawaga, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
By the beginning of the 21st century, TV revenue at both companies was dramatically outperforming the original newspaper business.
—Megan Greenwell, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outperform
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Additionally, its cash-to-assets ratio of 26.1% far exceeds the market’s 13.8%.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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This breathtaking final had already exceeded five hours.—
Sean Gregory,
Time,
8 June 2025
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Yeah, but still... Yamamoto had his second-worst stinker as a Dodger, surpassed by only his fumble of the division series opener last season against the Padres.—
Bill Plaschke,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2025
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Malia Jones placed third in triple jump at 39-2 and Brooklyn Davis, who surpassed 40-feet in prelims, was ninth in the shot put at 39-1 ¼ .—
Steve Brand,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 June 2025
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His album topped the Billboard 200 for seven weeks, won a Grammy for best classical performance – instrumentalist and received an album of the year nod.—
Paul Grein,
Billboard,
6 June 2025
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The countries — whose total trade in goods topped $582 billion last year — temporarily lowered most of the tariffs on each other’s goods after breakthrough bilateral trade talks in Geneva, Switzerland, last month.—
Kevin Breuninger,
CNBC,
6 June 2025
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That’s supposed to keep immigrant families safe and defeat Trump?—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
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His reign ended as another American emerged, Francis Ouimet, a mild-mannered amateur who defeated Vardon and Ted Ray in a playoff.—
Tim Corlett,
Forbes.com,
9 June 2025
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But your brain might still seek patterns to overcome.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Yet soon one is overcome by Charles Laughton’s creepy, convincing portrayal of Captain Bligh’s sadomasochism: most of the first fifteen minutes is taken up with floggings and other shipboard disciplining of half-naked men, shown in detail while Laughton looks on with long-lipped lasciviousness.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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