outperformed

past tense of outperform

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Recent Examples of outperformed Even though mFlusiva outperformed the traditional flu shot in a late-stage clinical trial, its approval was not a sure thing. Berkeley Lovelace Jr, NBC news, 6 Aug. 2026 In other words, more than 470 stocks in the index have outperformed ADBE this year. Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026 The same results appear in head-to-head testing, where models pretrained on clinical data outperformed general-purpose ones across most healthcare workflows. Fawad Butt, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026 That fall, an experimental cancer drug from the Chinese firm Akeso outperformed Keytruda, a gold-standard therapy made by the American pharma giant Merck. Evan Osnos, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026 Meanwhile, Wahab has largely outperformed her in this year’s two previous elections. Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2026 Though the event has outperformed its fundraising goals every year for the last five years, the seven-figure tally was the first in the event’s 26-year history. Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 28 July 2026 By throwing six scoreless innings, Shota Imanaga outperformed reigning NL Cy Young Award winner Paul Skenes, the night after Matthew Boyd’s strong start enabled the Cubs to outlast Jared Jones in a 3-2 victory in 10 innings. Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 26 July 2026 When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, for example, several contractors initially outperformed—but, according to a Fisher Investment analysis, much of those gains had already occurred before the invasion. Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outperformed
Verb
  • On Wednesday local time, his net worth surpassed $300 billion, ranking him second on the Forbes Billionaires List, behind only Elon Musk.
    , CNBC, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Cases in the state have surpassed 11,000, including 193 hospitalizations.
    Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Sales of the company's diabetes drug Ozempic and overall obesity portfolio exceeded analyst estimates for the quarter, according to StreetAccount.
    Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Advertising revenue was up 78% in that period, largely due to World Cup, which exceeded the company’s expectations.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The breakfast buffet features Japanese items like vegetable curry, onsen eggs, natto and miso soup, along with fluffy taro pancakes topped with coconut or guava syrup, quiches and local fruits.
    Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The song, which also topped the charts in more than a dozen countries, won three Grammy Awards in 2012 including record of the year, song of the year and best short form music video.
    Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 3 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Fishlock, Wales’s all-time leading scorer, scored the winner in the 85th minute as the Reign defeated Bay FC 3-2 Saturday night at PayPal Park, handing Bay another frustrating home loss.
    Harold Gutmann, Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2026
  • In an intense and emotional main event, Oba Femi defeated Brock Lesnar in Brock’s hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota in their third match inside Hell in a Cell.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

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“Outperformed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outperformed. Accessed 8 Aug. 2026.

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