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Recent Examples of outguessThe Fed and the Markets both appear to be trying to outguess each other.—George Calhoun, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
But occasionally, a bear outsmarts us or overcomes our defenses.
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Emma Marsden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 July 2025
Live Oak plans to use Casca as the engine behind its effort to bring transparency and structure to a part of the market known more for speed and opacity than fairness, a move that mirrors its history of outsmarting bigger rivals.
Several TikTok users offered their own stories of feline manipulation, turning the comment section into a community board for cat owners outwitted by their pets.
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Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 July 2025
In reality, Israel overpowered Iran’s military and outwitted its intelligence with stunning efficiency, demonstrating years, if not decades, of careful preparation in under two weeks.
Either way, in a world where everything can be faked — intelligence, emotion, even purpose — the real danger isn’t that AI will outthink us.
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Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
And if this isn’t an isolated incident, then this presents a huge problem for the remnants of humanity, most of whom have survived through a mixture of luck and simply being able to outthink these single-minded creatures.
The 6ft 4in (193cm) Italian waited patiently until the right moment (even second-guessing himself at one point), before making room for himself by swinging out to the right, powering past Groves and sprinting to the win.
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Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
12 July 2025
Her inner conflict, though, is all the more compelling in the face of her boyfriend’s refusal to second-guess himself.
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