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outshine

[out-shahyn] / ˌaʊtˈʃaɪn /


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It felt as if the smaller Anthropic was on the ascent, threatening to outshine OpenAI.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

This overwhelming brightness allows quasars to outshine their host galaxies and makes them visible to telescopes across vast cosmic distances.

From Science Daily • Dec. 27, 2025

The study found that Grokipedia articles often "contain exactly identical copies of text" from Wikipedia, a site it has intended to outshine.

From Barron's • Nov. 14, 2025

Just the bacteria that live in our mouths outshine E. coli for acid tolerance he notes.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025

You’re a high achiever who fulfills my narcissistic need to outshine the other mothers on the block.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray