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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 outperforms
But our system outperforms all of them, sometimes by a very large measure.
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IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2025
The Trafalgar poll showed that Sherill still outperforms her opponent among women, Black voters, Hispanics and Gen Z voters.
—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
What’s remained is Cerebras’ insistence that its hardware outperforms graphics processing units, or GPUs, a market that Nvidia dominates but where Advanced Micro Devices is trying to play catch-up.
—Jordan Novet, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2025
Meta also launched its superintelligence lab, recruiting talent aggressively with multi-million-dollar job offers, to develop AI that outperforms human intelligence.
—Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
The result is loyal teams, loyal clients and profitability that outperforms high‑volume models without sacrificing community impact.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
The show, geared toward a MAGA audience, consistently outperforms all its competitors in linear ratings.
—Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
Hilton has made 52 NFL starts in four seasons, handling 5,425 defensive snaps, and will likely man the nickel spot unless Cornell Armstrong, a six-year veteran who has made a career for himself as a special teams contributor, outperforms him.
—Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 4 Aug. 2025
IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2025
The Trafalgar poll showed that Sherill still outperforms her opponent among women, Black voters, Hispanics and Gen Z voters.
—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
What’s remained is Cerebras’ insistence that its hardware outperforms graphics processing units, or GPUs, a market that Nvidia dominates but where Advanced Micro Devices is trying to play catch-up.
—Jordan Novet, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2025
Meta also launched its superintelligence lab, recruiting talent aggressively with multi-million-dollar job offers, to develop AI that outperforms human intelligence.
—Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
The result is loyal teams, loyal clients and profitability that outperforms high‑volume models without sacrificing community impact.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
The show, geared toward a MAGA audience, consistently outperforms all its competitors in linear ratings.
—Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
Hilton has made 52 NFL starts in four seasons, handling 5,425 defensive snaps, and will likely man the nickel spot unless Cornell Armstrong, a six-year veteran who has made a career for himself as a special teams contributor, outperforms him.
—Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outperforms
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The European Linen Sheet Set at Quince is only $140 and surpasses its expensive competitor in feel, weight, and quality.—
Izzy Baskette,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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The food pantry’s national delivery service received 410 new applications for support in just 10 days, an increase Bassett says surpasses their usual total from an entire quarter.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
12 Oct. 2025
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But the two have racked up an astronomical, nine-figure legal bill that far exceeds any reasonable amount the two may have needed for their defense, the bank said in a court filing late Friday.—
Ken Sweet,
Fortune,
25 Oct. 2025
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The young girls are going back to their remote mountain village to take part in the perilous harvest of the yarsagumba, a rare creature, half mushroom, half insect, whose value exceeds that of gold.—
Annika Pham,
Variety,
24 Oct. 2025
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With 21 sacks, Mizzou tops all of Vanderbilt’s previous opponents this season.—
Maddie Hartley,
Kansas City Star,
22 Oct. 2025
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The style’s 100-percent organic cotton composition, too, will ensure these babies last you for years on end, meshing well with everything from Fair Isle sweaters to your sexiest date-night halter tops.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
21 Oct. 2025
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In these sparsely populated spaces, the mountain always defeats the human, instilling a deep respect for the environment.—
Callum McLennan,
Variety,
24 Oct. 2025
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The Vigenère cipher ingeniously defeats straightforward frequency analysis because not all E’s, for example, will get mapped to the same letter.—
Jack Murtagh,
Scientific American,
22 Oct. 2025
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