OUTSHINES Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

outshines

verb

present tense third-person singular of outshine

as in surpasses

to be greater, better, or stronger than the trumpeter outshines all of his fellow band members

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loses (to)

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Recent Examples of outshines McNeely’s portrait of a laboring mother, swathed in glowing fields of chartreuse, outshines (again, literally) art history’s greats. — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 18 Sep. 2026 Florida spends $14,000 per student, less than half of New York’s level, yet outshines New York in fourth-grade mathematics and reading. — Zilvinas "z" Silenas, New York Daily News, 14 Sep. 2026 But Brooks’ boundless enthusiasm – passion that’s too big for his body to contain – outshines all of that. — Heather Bushman, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026 At those temperatures, the photosphere outshines the corona only because the plasma in the corona is so sparsely distributed. — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 7 July 2026 With read/write speeds of up to 14,800/13,400MB per second, this SSD outshines the competition. — George Yang, PC Magazine, 25 June 2026 The central region of Messier 77 is dominated by an extremely compact and energetic source that outshines the rest of the galaxy combined, even challenging the sensitivity of the James Webb Space Telescope itself. — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026 Like the Battle of the Alamo for Texans, this bloody spectacle is for regime-loyal Shia the defeat that outshines in glory any possible subsequent victory. — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2026 Even though Earth and Jupiter are moving farther and farther away from each other in their respective orbits around the sun, Jupiter still outshines all the stars in Orion’s gang. — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2026

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Tarrant County saw a dip in early voters on Wednesday, but the number of people turning out locally still surpasses Texas’ last midterm election.

— Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Oct. 2026
Brady, who has 187 regular-season victories, surpasses Hall of Famer Brett Favre (186) and Peyton Manning (186) for the most regular-season victories by a starting quarterback in NFL history.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026

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On the mound for Milwaukee was Misiorowski, a beanstalk of a pitcher whose fastball routinely exceeds a hundred and three miles per hour.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
The panel exceeds 100% sRGB, as many OLED monitors do, which can occasionally result in an overblown image.

— Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2026

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