outperform

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
push the envelopeidiom
put/leave someone in the shadeidiom
shade
shame
steal a march on someoneidiom
steal someone's thunderidiom
tower

surpass | American Dictionary

surpass
verb[ T ]
us/sərˈpæs/
to do or be better or more than something else:
Our team’s achievements surpass those of teams in earlier years.

surpass | Business English

surpass
verb[ T ]
uk /səˈpɑːs/us
to do or be better or greater than something:
The quarterly sales figures have surpassed everyone's expectations.
The latest figures surpassed the previous peak of 15,418 foreclosures in the third quarter of 2008.

Examples of surpass

surpass
What if past thought were not always surpassed thought?
His work in this field is unlikely to be surpassed for a very long time to come.
Team effort supported by massive corporate resources surpasses lone artists in technological advances in the creative arts.
For example, in poorer countries the number of wireless phone connections are surpassing the number of fixed lines.
This phenomenon far surpasses general notions of "poor" parenting.
Early estimates of maximum life expectancy, which yielded values in the 70s, have already been surpassed in low mortality populations.
Consequently, although jack mackerel catches continued to rise, surpassing 3 million tonnes in 1991, pilchard harvests collapsed back to mid-1970s levels.
Then, a competitive linking strategy is used, but not until all words or phrases are linked, but until a certain threshold is surpassed.
Even when audio samples make explicit references to other compositions/contexts/histories, the results rarely surpass nostalgic affect.
Notwithstanding the objections raised here, it is unlikely to be surpassed in breadth and depth in years to come.
Such a move would surpass the current vogue of 'research-fordevelopment', which still assumes the research is at centre stage.
As can be seen, this new method found the best trade-off solution using both representations, surpassing even the mathematical programming techniques employed.
But they also wish to show that men of this kind surpassed the limits of acceptable male behaviour.
Unexpectedly, the exact version even surpasses the performance of the double precision one.
Nineteenth-century sources tell us of clerks surpassing in number the officials, some departments employing up to several tens of them at the same time.
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