ONE-UPPING Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

one-upping

verb

present participle of one-up

as in outrunning

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Dissimilar Words

losing (to)

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Verb

To wit, an investor who was in at the start would be down $65,530 on a price basis on a $100,000 investment, as of this writing, from the IPO date, but would have collected about $75,000 from dividends, just barely outrunning the loss on price.

— Michael Foster, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
His peers of the mid-19th century were outrunning their critics and the old strictures of colonial imitation.

— Steven Johnson, Washington Post, 14 July 2026

Definition of outrunning

Verb

View gallery - 3 images IBM has developed the blueprint for producing a processor using sub-1-nanometer (nm) chip technology, outdoing its own efforts to increase efficiency and processing power with 2-nm tech from a few years ago.

— Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 26 June 2026
As rumors have flown about this relentless Sacramento parking enforcement officer, Nakamura has quietly patrolled the streets, outdoing himself.

— Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 15 Apr. 2026

Definition of outdoing

Verb

Standard maps are of little help when the capital redraws itself weekly, with closures and new interchanges outpacing the Big Tech cartographers.

— Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Fellow Anthropic co-founder and chief science officer Jared Kaplan had long feared that AI would eventually accelerate research, perhaps outpacing safety efforts.

— Harry Booth, Time, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of outpacing

Verb

Denker said that 288,000 free tickets were requested through a lottery system — exceeding the 130,000 spectators whom organizers plan to host on each of the event's two days.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026
Meanwhile, Paramount Skydance raised its full-year profit guidance, after exceeding Wall Street expectations for revenue and reported gains in its streaming unit.

— Justina Lee, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of exceeding

Verb

The flare-up has reached that scale in just over two months, surpassing the country’s last major Ebola epidemic, which spanned nearly two years between August 2018 and June 2020.

— Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026
It is designed to improve interconnectivity and networking capabilities within data centers and operate at a scope surpassing current transistor technology and copper cable connections.

— Paxton Honerkamp, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of surpassing

Verb

In a World Cup boasting a galaxy of stars, a lunch-bucket team of blue-collar everymen may wind up outshining them all.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026
That's good news for stargazers, as the moon will still be visible without outshining the planets nearby.

— Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 10 July 2026

Definition of outshining

Verb

Though their days of topping the charts may be past them, Friday night proved that their classics will live forever.

— Rashad Alexander August 8, Kansas City Star, 8 Aug. 2026
The company also reported a solid quarter after the bell, with adjusted earnings per share of 52 cents topping estimates of 45 cents, per LSEG, and $772 million in revenue beating estimates of $758 million.

— Michelle Fox, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of topping

Verb

He was also convicted of engaging in an act of terrorism transcending national boundaries and providing material support to terrorists.

— Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 30 July 2026
Ralph Lauren's two-decade partnership with Wimbledon exemplifies sophisticated luxury marketing, transcending mere sponsorship.

— Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026

Definition of transcending

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