How to Use outperform in a Sentence

outperform

verb

• The stock has far outperformed the S&P and Nasdaq since Goodarzi took the helm.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2023
• There has been no recession and the economy outperformed in the last three months of the year.
  — ABC News, 28 Jan. 2024
• The tech-heavy Nasdaq added 0.5%, outperforming its peers.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2023
• Stakeholders in the art world widely claim art has outperformed the S&P500 in recent years.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2023
• Greatest Works of Art outperformed them all, but by exactly how much isn’t clear.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• The net is that, in short-term trials (a year or less), low-carb diets outperform other diets by a few pounds (under 10).
  — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• Drones with four rotors, called quadrotors, outperform birds in open spaces, per the statement.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
• The tech-heavy Nasdaq, which has been racing past its peers, outperformed in recent trading.
  — WSJ, 13 June 2023
• The stock market over long periods tends to outperform bonds and cash investment, but at the cost of much greater volatility.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 14 July 2023
• But don't let the price fool you: Hanes consistently outperforms more expensive brands with ease in our tests.
  — Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping, 14 Mar. 2023
• The Sony model meanwhile outperforms the other two in the presence of subwoofer-like rumble.
  — Joe Hindy, PCMAG, 18 Sep. 2023
• At 1 pound each, their speckled brown bodies and auburn tails are outperformed by long, wispy white mustaches.
  — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2023
• Czech bonds have outperformed most European peers this year.
  — Peter Laca, Fortune Europe, 27 Nov. 2023
• Or to think the best performing investment can outperform again.
  — Noah Rubin, Sun Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2023
• And sometimes, the cruise experience outperforms the theme parks.
  — Nerd Wallet, oregonlive, 9 July 2023
• McCain, in his final Senate race, outperformed Trump on the same ballot, winning a sixth term by about 12 percentage points.
  — Dan Nowicki, The Arizona Republic, 27 Apr. 2023
• Time and again, new inventions have prompted fears that machines will outperform humans at a lower cost.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Nov. 2023
• Baseball games have outperformed all cable stations in primetime in 22 of their 25 U.S. markets.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
• The monoclonal version with just one strain outperformed each of the bivalent options.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 16 June 2023
• Despite fears of a recession, the U.S. economy appears to have achieved a soft landing and has outperformed those of its major trading partners.
  — Eva Dou, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
• The Dow industrials rose, outperforming the Nasdaq by its widest one-day margin since March 2021.
  — WSJ, 20 July 2023
• Bancroft is an English and Spanish dual-language school, where students outperformed their peers across the city on standardized tests last year.
  — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
• Election Regardless, Trump outperforms his in-party rivals at this early stage of the 2024 contest.
  — Gary Langer, ABC News, 6 May 2023
• That program is currently outperforming Idol among viewers under 50, and costs a lot less to produce.
  — Emergency! May 1, Vulture, 1 May 2023
• And after the first semester, many of them outperformed Miami's full-time college freshmen.
  — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 2 May 2023
• Even here, though, Biden outperforms Trump by a mile, merely by acknowledging that climate change is an urgent problem.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2023
• This is how some seemingly smaller calibers and lighter bullets can outperform large, heavier ones.
  — Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 11 Apr. 2023
• Goldman shares are up nearly 6% this year through Thursday, outperforming the S&P 500.
  — Charley Grant, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2023
• English learners who go through the programs outperform their English learner peers on reading and math tests and graduate at higher rates.
  — Tara García Mathewson, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
• So small that, in trial after trial, no diet, based on any of these things, significantly outperforms any other diet in the long term.
  — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024