as in to outperform
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In his two-plus weeks with the Reds, he’s outperformed that reputation.—
C. Trent Rosecrans,
New York Times,
18 Aug. 2025 -
McDonald's has outperformed by leaning heavily into value.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Aug. 2025
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Alas, the car curse did indeed transfer its powers and claim another victim, as Earl unanimously bested Dreamz and Cassandra in the final three, but not before Dreamz was on the receiving end of some brutal jury judgement for his aborted car deal gone wrong, along with other moves in the game.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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The approach appears to be working, with this weekend’s open beta besting Call of Duty’s all-time active player count on platforms like Steam with over 500,000 users at once, which doesn’t even include those on consoles like PlayStation or Xbox.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
12 Aug. 2025
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Pointing to a legal analysis weighing reasons why the FTC's antitrust claims might not hold up in court, Olson suggested that the FTC is unlikely to overcome constitutional protections and win its ad war on the merits.—
Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
22 Aug. 2025
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Anyone overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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Chatter in a crowded room, the grind of metal on train tracks and the boisterous wall of sound backstage at a gig were also effectively subdued but not completely obliterated.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
22 Aug. 2025
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As with every Premier League ground, the effects of the stadiums going all-seater and ticket price rises in the 1990s subdued the atmosphere, but safe standing is now a thing and stadiums are better for it.—
Andy Mitten,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025
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Indeed, Trump, who typically blames Ukraine for having been invaded, configures Putin’s Russia as eager for peace, even though Moscow has spent the summer relentlessly attacking civilian targets in Ukraine and pushing to conquer more territory.—
MICHAEL KIMMAGE,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Aug. 2025
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Mao Zedong is said to have suggested that anyone who couldn’t tolerate chiles couldn’t be a revolutionary; all over the world, and for centuries, spiciness has been something to conquer, and chiles have symbolized strength, bravery, national pride, and virility.—
Ellen Cushing,
The Atlantic,
18 Aug. 2025
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To surmount this problem, very specific protocols based on strict criteria are required to recognize an early supernova.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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The problems to surmount were structural: deindustrialization, entrenched segregation, economic marginalization—conditions shaped by Jim Crow, but not undone by its eclipse.—
Idrees Kahloon,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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The strength of record metric rewards teams for defeating quality opponents and minimizes the penalty for losing to good teams.—
Blake Toppmeyer,
USA TODAY,
21 Aug. 2025
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Hamas is severely weakened but not defeated Hamas has suffered heavy losses through nearly two years of war.—
Samy Magdy,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Aug. 2025
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On her fifth attempt, the Olympic champion jumped 7.12 to outdo herself yet again.—
Katelyn Hutchison,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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Built using huge amounts of computing power at a Tennessee data center, Grok is Musk’s attempt to outdo rivals such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini in building an AI assistant that shows its reasoning before answering a question.—
Matt O’Brien,
Los Angeles Times,
12 July 2025
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“Outcompete.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outcompete. Accessed 28 Aug. 2025.
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