surpassformal

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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

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Winning and defeating

Examples of outperformed

outperformed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

For production, only the meaningful outputbased group outperformed the control group.
Controlling for the other predictors, girls outperformed boys by almost nine points.
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.
As expected, both treatment groups outperformed the group with no advance organizer; however, the interrogative group did not outperform the declarative group.
Consequently, results unexpectedly showed that the comparison group ultimately outperformed the experimental groups.
Tukey tests indicated that the adults outperformed the adolescents and the children on imagery and comprehension and the adolescents outperformed the children on comprehension.
On a productive test, productive learners had a sizable advantage over receptive learners, whereas on recognition, receptive learners outperformed productive learners.
The fifth- and third-semester learners outperformed the first-semester learners.
However, only instructed participants outperformed learners from the other groups when judging novel items on a transfer grammaticality-judgment test.
They found that older subjects and adults outperformed children in the early phases of learning.
In estimation errors, the compensation technique outperformed other resampling algorithms though its runtime was longer than those of others.
Overall, five-year-olds outperformed three-year-olds but performed significantly less well than adults.
Despite reporting missing concepts, the search functionality with ontology outperformed the traditional full-text search approach as more relevant document subsets have been retrieved.
The older students outperformed younger learners on both measures.
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