- present participle of outperform.
outperforming
Example Sentences
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“The average stock is outperforming right now,” Adam Phillips, head of investments at EP Wealth, told MarketWatch on Friday.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
"Kimi K3 demonstrated frontier-level performance across our evaluation suite, consistently outperforming other tested models," Moonshot AI said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Retail investors had a pretty strong two-month stretch when they were outperforming the broader market by as much as 10 percentage points.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
At World Cups, Messi has scored 17 non-penalty goals from chances worth approximately 13.1 expected goals, outperforming expectation by almost four goals.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Whatever triggered Peeta's decision -and I suspect it had to do with my outperforming him in training -I should be nothing but grateful for it.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
