verb

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Outperform (verb) means to achieve better results than someone or something else.

verb

To achieve better results than someone or something else.

"Rail has continued to outperform bus operations, where a decline in ridership continues." — , Industry Insider: Continued rail growth (2019)

"The strategy depends on an ability to outperform the market consistently, which many economists regard as virtually impossible." — John Cassidy, Mastering the Machine (2011)

"ChatGPT performs well at writing argumentative student essays and outperforms the quality of the human-written essays significantly." — Herbold et al, A large-scale comparison of human-written versus ChatGPT-generated essays (2023)

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