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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
overperform .
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Examples
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We know mammography overperforms and finds things that will never be life-threatening, and we know it underperforms in some women.
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Of course, there's one other critical area where Mitt Romney overperforms Herman Cain:
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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The film looks likely to register just $60 million-$70 million domestically, suggesting a possible corporate write-off of up to $100 million unless the release dramatically overperforms overseas.
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Aussies aren't as bad as made out against the Germans - one team always overperforms/underperforms in Game one - See Russia v Spain in the last Euros - I men Russia in that example.
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You'll see that the Dow frequently overperforms on the upside and overperforms on the downside from 1980 onward.
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As to be released in the summer, it's always bad timing until a film overperforms and then everybody leaps in and calls it "brilliant counter-programming".
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Kiron Kher overperforms in a scene or two, while Bobby Deol appears uptight and restrained.
ApunKaChoice.com 2008
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