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outperform en · VERB

Pronunciation

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• /ˌaʊt.pɚˈfɔɹm/ (US)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *ūt- Old English ūt- Middle English ut- English out- English perform English outperform From out- + perform.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To perform better than something or someone.
   • Rail has continued to outperform bus operations, where a decline in ridership continues. 2019 October 23, “Industry Insider: Continued rail growth”, in Rail, page 72:
   • The strategy depends on an ability to outperform the market consistently, which many economists regard as virtually impossible. 2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
   • ChatGPT performs well at writing argumentative student essays and outperforms the quality of the human-written essays significantly. 2023 October 30, Herbold et al., “A large-scale comparison of human-written versus ChatGPT-generated essays”, in Scientific Reports, volume 13, page 8:
   • When GPT-4 was tested by medical experts from Microsoft without any specialized prompt crafting, it exceeded the passing score on USMLE by over 20 points and outperformed earlier general-purpose models (GPT-3.5) as well as models specifically fine-tuned on medical knowledge (Med-PaLM, a prompt-tuned version of Flan-PaLM 540B) [13]. 2023, Aravind Kumaresan, Lorna Udan, Shazad Ashaf, “Potential Role of ChatGPT in Healthcare in the Prevention and Management of Non-communicable Diseases”, in Lorna Uden, I-Hsien Ting, editors, Knowledge Management in Organisations: 17th International Conference, KMO 2023, Proceedings, Springer, page 432:
   • It[China] had a buoyant economy outperforming forecasts. Its unemployment rate was among the lowest in years. While consolidating his power for a second term, Mr Xi proudly pointed to China's "flourishing" growth model as something other countries could emulate. 2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC:

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