How to Use outperform in a Sentence

outperform

verb
  • Collins has outperformed polls in the past.
    — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
  • One email to a warm list outperforms six months of cold outreach to strangers.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • George has far outperformed where he was drafted.
    — Josh Robbins, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Most outperformed by quite large margins as well.
    — Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 24 June 2026
  • The group has already outperformed this year.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2026
  • And there is every chance some of the vaccines may outperform this bar.
    — Matthew Herper, STAT, 5 Oct. 2020
  • To pass, students have to outperform at least half of their classmates.
    — Nanette Asimov, SFChronicle.com, 3 Nov. 2020
  • There was a high voter turnout, and Democrats outperformed in both states.
    — Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Trump has outperformed his polls in the past — sometimes by big margins.
    — Niall Stanage, The Hill, 2 Nov. 2024
  • There aren't many players who have outperformed the double act.
    — SI.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Her team can’t outperform the market.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Everybody is a lone wolfe, and the goal is to outperform each other.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • So will the theme continue to outperform in the near-to-medium term?
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • The two-day event is one in which the Ducks could outperform projections.
    — Ken Goe For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 9 June 2021
  • But a skilled player like Herzig could outperform the lucky players over the long run.
    — David Hill, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2025
  • But our system outperforms all of them, sometimes by a very large measure.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2025
  • As always, works fresh to the market outperformed those that have been passed around in recent years.
    — Julie Brener Davich, ARTnews.com, 19 May 2026
  • The latter hit its all-time high last week and has been outperforming the stock market over the past three months.
    — Itzel Franco, CNBC, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Fatty fish two to three times a week tends to outperform a supplement on top of a poor diet.
    — Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 7 May 2026
  • Gold has been outperforming stocks.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Tyson shares have risen 5% this year, outperforming the market.
    — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 26 Mar. 2026
  • There has been no recession and the economy outperformed in the last three months of the year.
    — ABC News, 28 Jan. 2024
  • This team was outcoached and outperformed against a team that is expected to be middling at best.
    — Mike Kaye september 10, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
  • This car was born to outperform, and to raise the bar, redefining the norm for performance cars.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 1 June 2021
  • In salary cap terms their best option is to find players who can outperform their contracts over the next few seasons.
    — Patrick Murray, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2021
  • Dick's shares are up 7% in the year to date, outperforming the overall market.
    — Sean Conlon,lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2026
  • This is how to build a growing team that will outperform your expectations.
    — Robert Hogeboom, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • And most grades — third, fifth, sixth, and seventh — outperformed the state average.
    — Bri Hatch, Chalkbeat, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Oh, and Bonds and Clemens also outperformed most of those juiced up players.
    — Andy Nesbitt, For The Win, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Club members say the challenge is to outperform the school’s main investment fund.
    — Kim Chatelain|contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 19 Sep. 2020

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