as in to outsmart
to get the better of through cleverness
a plan to outwit their opponents at their own game
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Recent Examples of outwit
While Brooklyn attorney Kyle Fraser ultimately outwitted, outplayed, and outlasted the competition to claim the $1 million prize in a nail-biting 5-2-1 jury vote, our local hero, Mitch Guerra, ended his Fijian adventure as the seventh member of the jury.
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Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
But in order to find the ultimate prize, Luffy will need to assemble the crew he's always wanted before finding a ship to sail, searching every inch of the vast blue seas, outpacing the Marines, and outwitting dangerous rivals at every turn.
—Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 June 2025
When betrayal strikes from within, the team must outwit overwhelming odds to survive and escape.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 June 2025
But Black Bag is electrifying, with Soderbergh operating in his God mode — portraying highly competent people attempting to outwit one another in beautiful clothes, the light practically bending to their beauty and banter.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025
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Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
But in order to find the ultimate prize, Luffy will need to assemble the crew he's always wanted before finding a ship to sail, searching every inch of the vast blue seas, outpacing the Marines, and outwitting dangerous rivals at every turn.
—Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 June 2025
When betrayal strikes from within, the team must outwit overwhelming odds to survive and escape.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 June 2025
But Black Bag is electrifying, with Soderbergh operating in his God mode — portraying highly competent people attempting to outwit one another in beautiful clothes, the light practically bending to their beauty and banter.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outwit
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But occasionally, a bear outsmarts us or overcomes our defenses.—
Emma Marsden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 July 2025
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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.—
Brandon Kochkodin,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
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The concept and storyboard work began in the late 90s, but 9/11 happened and plans to film in Africa were thwarted.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
12 July 2025
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Norton AntiVirus Plus excels with top scores from independent labs and includes a powerful Data Protector feature to thwart ransomware attacks.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
11 July 2025
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More than 20 children are in the custody of a Southern California child-welfare agency as authorities investigate allegations of child abuse and whether surrogate mothers were deceived by a Los Angeles-area couple.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
17 July 2025
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And then he was wishy-washy, went back and forth, and she was deceived and disappointed by him.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
15 July 2025
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The Dodgers defeated the Yankees in the 2024 World Series four games to one.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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The billionaires will spend endlessly to defeat him.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
14 July 2025
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For two decades, senior legislators and military leaders have been working, mostly without success, to overcome these problems.—
Dexter Filkins,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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Judicial confirmations were once a slower, more contentious process, often requiring 60 votes to overcome a filibuster.—
Samantha-Jo Roth,
The Washington Examiner,
14 July 2025
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Rohit's captaincy was also in the gun, outfoxed tactically by opposite number Pat Cummins.—
Tristan Lavalette,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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In the most iconic scene, he gets outfoxed on the subway by the French drug lord on a subway, playing cat-and-mouse on the platform.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
27 Feb. 2025
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His impersonation is so convincing that Lu and Shin are initially fooled.—
Allison DeGrushe Published,
EW.com,
14 July 2025
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The Mets couldn’t pick up his slider and were fooled on his changeup.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
13 July 2025
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Either way, in a world where everything can be faked — intelligence, emotion, even purpose — the real danger isn’t that AI will outthink us.—
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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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.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
13 Apr. 2025
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“Outwit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outwit. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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