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outshine

verb as in outdo

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Unlike the Milky Way, J0107a is enormous, and actually outshines all other early-Universe monster galaxies: it produces stars at a rate 300 times that of our Milky Way!

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Goals grab the headlines, so given Ethan's position is a midfielder he is unlikely to outshine his brother in that department.

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Critics argued the golf series was a deliberate attempt at “sportswashing” by “banking on the glamour of athletics to outshine concerns about a history of human rights abuses,” The Times reported at the time.

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

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"Scarily, weight loss seems to outshine all those record-breaking achievements."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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