Example Sentences

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The eurozone's fourth-largest economy has outshone its peers since 2021, supported by low energy costs, domestic consumption and a tourism boom since the end of the Covid pandemic.

From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026

But gold has outshone them all; it is outperforming every major stock index from Shanghai to New York.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 21, 2025

Duterte’s daughter, Davao mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio has outshone Go in opinion polls as possible presidential contenders.

From Reuters • Jul. 8, 2021

These similarities have culminated in a parallel situation in both communities, in which price has outshone traditional ways of seeing.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 12, 2016

The luster of Channing's fame has outshone and outlasted that of his associates; and yet these were stars of hardly less magnitude.

From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey