outperform

verb

out·​per·​form ˌau̇t-pər-ˈfȯrm How to pronounce outperform (audio)
ˌau̇t-pə-
outperformed; outperforming; outperforms

transitive verb

: to perform better than
Today a kid who flips burgers can save enough money to buy a motorcycle that will outperform all but a couple of pricey sports cars.James R. Petersen

Examples of outperform in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web It’s long felt like a fact of life that the U.S. economy outperforms Europe’s. Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 15 May 2024 In March, The Verge reported that Amazon has tasked its AGI team with building a model that outperforms Anthopic’s most capable AI model, Claude 3, by the middle of this year. Will Henshall, TIME, 13 May 2024 Also Tuesday, school officials announced that students who attended a city prekindergarten program or Judy Center outperformed their peers on the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment. Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 13 Mar. 2024 OpenAI’s update comes as other developers, like Anthropic and Google, push out AI models that claim to outperform the current version of GPT. Diane Brady, Fortune, 14 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for outperform 

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Word History

First Known Use

1937, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of outperform was in 1937

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“Outperform.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outperform. Accessed 6 Jun. 2024.

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