perform
verb (used with object)
overperform
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a word derived from
perform.
Example Sentences
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“But I’ve been in this business for 18 years and I’ve seen it always overperform projections.”
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
UBS analysts said in a note Monday that the current consumer environment sets up off-price retailers like TJX and Burlington to overperform this holiday season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
Next continued to see sales overperform, with its latest results in October seeing a 10.5% increase in sales.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2025
But Cronin’s lab went beyond that to zero in on the underside of your disposal’s black rubber drain flange, a location that tends to overperform on ickiness.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
I mainly took this as a mandate to overperform, to do everything I possibly could to keep up with or even plow past the more privileged people around me.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
