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verb

outperform

be or do something to a greater degree

In a sentence

Six example sentences with outperform, each labelled with its topic.

  • The small index fund outperformed every active manager in the region over ten years, and it charged a tenth as much.

    Finance

  • The bench outperformed the starters in the second half, outscoring them by fourteen while the crowd was still settling.

    Basketball

  • Two engineers in a rented room outperformed a hundred person division, shipping the feature nine months before the larger team.

    Startups

  • The new chip outperforms last year's model by a third while drawing less power from the same battery.

    Technology

  • Small open economies outperformed their larger neighbors for most of the decade, growing on exports while the giants stalled.

    Economics

  • The cheaper generic outperformed the branded drug in the trial, lowering blood pressure further with fewer reported side effects.

    Medicine

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