surpassformal

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Surpassing in quality or number
catch
catch (someone) up
compare
crown
crush
do something for an encoreidiom
eclipse
encore
outcompete
outdo
outflank
outgo
outman
put/leave someone in the shadeidiom
shade
shame
steal a march on someoneidiom
steal someone's thunderidiom
surpass
tower

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Winning and defeating

outperform | American Dictionary

outperform
verb[ T ]
us/ˌɑʊt·pərˈfɔrm/
to perform better or do better than someone or something:
Technology stocks are outperforming the rest of the market.

outperform | Business English

outperform
verb
uk /ˌaʊtpəˈfɔːm/us
[ I or T ] STOCK MARKET, FINANCE
if shares, bonds, etc. outperform, or if they outperform a particular stock market or financial market, they produce more money for investors than other shares, bonds, etc. of a similar type:
Commodities futures have produced better annual returns than stocks and outperformed bonds even more.
In the short term, equities are higher risk, but over the long term they are less risky because they will outperform.
outperform the (stock) market/indexThe latest Fortune survey of business performance in the US showed that new and diverse companies outperform the stock market.
[ T ]
to be more successful than other companies or countries:
Employment reports suggest that the US economy will outperform Europe in the months to come.
outperform (your) competitors/rivalsIn order to achieve dramatic improvements and outperform competitors, a corporation often needs to make radical changes.

Examples of outperform

outperform
In fact, the latter feature significantly outperforms all other features.
For production, only the meaningful outputbased group outperformed the control group.
All of the learned strategies appear to outperform handcrafted strategies, even those learned with relatively unsophisticated user models.
This innovation has yielded models that outperform their predecessors in terms of matching several business cycle features.
Controlling for the other predictors, girls outperformed boys by almost nine points.
The argument is that active asset management is required to outperform the market, which therefore leads to higher investment management expenses.
Students listening to a scripted monologue outperformed those listening to an unscripted discussion of the same content.
The experienced-user simulation outperformed both automatic expansion by the top 6 and by the top 20 terms.
This intuition is exploited by top-down techniques which only consider atoms necessary to answer the current query and outperform model generators used for refutation.
As expected, both treatment groups outperformed the group with no advance organizer; however, the interrogative group did not outperform the declarative group.
Self-organizing traffic light controllers are proposed and studied with multi-agent simulations, outperforming traditional methods.
While the stochastic components do not outperform manually tuned rule-based systems, they have advantages in adaptability to other languages and domains.
Consequently, results unexpectedly showed that the comparison group ultimately outperformed the experimental groups.
As a result, our method outperforms conventional methods for texts of different lengths and different domains.
He concludes that immersion students tend to outperform their monolingual peers in literacy, metalinguistic awareness and an analytical approach to language.
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