outperform

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˌaʊt.pɚˈfɔɹm/
Audio (General American): (file)

Verb

outperform (third-person singular simple present outperforms, present participle outperforming, simple past and past participle outperformed)

(transitive) To perform better than something or someone.
- 2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker‎^[1], →ISSN:
  The strategy depends on an ability to outperform the market consistently, which many economists regard as virtually impossible.
- 2019 October 23, “Industry Insider: Continued rail growth”, in Rail, page 72:
  Rail has continued to outperform bus operations, where a decline in ridership continues.
- 2023 October 30, Herbold et al., “A large-scale comparison of human-written versus ChatGPT-generated essays”, in Scientific Reports, volume 13, page 8:
  ChatGPT performs well at writing argumentative student essays and outperforms the quality of the human-written essays significantly.
- 2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC‎^[2]:
  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, 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:
  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].

Translations

Spanish: superar (es), sobrepasar (es), llevar en la balastra (Nicaragua)