outperformed

verb

past tense of outperform
as in surpassed
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 outperformed Lawson said Amendment 3 outperformed a nationwide shift to the left, and blamed the loss on out-of-state donors contributing to the opposition. — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 4 Nov. 2026 Apple heading into Monday's earnings report had outperformed the Nasdaq-100 by nearly 20 percentage points over the prior six months. — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 3 Nov. 2026 That weekend in is in line with Evil Dead Rise and M3GAN and outperformed all other key comps including Smile, Weapons and The Black Phone. — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2026 Republicans outperformed expectations in several recent presidential elections, while Democrats were underestimated in key Senate races in the last midterm cycle, and in Virginia and New Jersey governor’s races last year. — Lenny Bronner, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2026 Netanyahu’s Likud party and its allies outperformed expectations on Tuesday. — Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 28 Oct. 2026 But University of Florida research also found that tech companies that have gone public with more than one class of stock have outperformed single-class tech companies. — Diane Brady, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2026 Both outperformed similar catalysts that lacked the MXene support, the study demonstrated. — Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2026 Meanwhile, the MacBook Neo's iPhone-grade chip outperformed Googlebooks’ processors in single-core performance, while losing out on multi-core performance by varying (but overall large) margins. — Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outperformed
  1. surpassed
  2. exceeded
  3. topped
  4. defeated
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  • Coastal flooding damaged 114 homes and other structures last month as tides surpassed 8 feet, officials said at the meeting.
    — Claire Wang, Oc Register, 7 Nov. 2026
  • But that didn’t lead to consistent scoring, as the team has surpassed 17 points in a game just once this season.
    — Joaquin Ruiz, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of surpassed
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  • The transfer from Penn State hit 7-of-10 3-point attempts to highlight a scoring performance only three Florida players have exceeded.
    — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2026
  • According to local media reports, Pane’s annual gross merchandise volume on Tmall exceeded 100 million renminbi in 2025, and the brand expects to have 10 stores across six cities in mainland China, including Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.
    — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of exceeded
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  • Each cookie is aptly named with a phrase or word that’s related to baseball, like the sluggers sourdough, a version of a chocolate chip cookie that Amber makes with sourdough and brown butter and is topped with flaky sea salt.
    — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Alex Rounaghi, Sue Kempf and Mark Orgill topped the nine-candidate field from the close of polls on Tuesday and, as of Friday’s update on ballot counting in the county remain in the lead.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of topped
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  • In the northwest suburban 8th District, Krishnamoorthi will hand the seat back to fellow centrist Melissa Bean, who also defeated more progressive candidates in the primary.
    — Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Pulido defeated Republican incumbent Monica De La Cruz, who took jabs at his showbiz background during her campaign.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of defeated

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