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Examples of outfox in a Sentence
the prisoners outfoxed the guards by tunneling beneath the prison walls
Recent Examples on the Web
The playful, abstract compositions of Ore-Giron, meanwhile, are constantly outfoxing an impulse to settle into symmetry.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
Their groundbreaking tactics enabled CIA officers to outfox the KGB in Moscow.
—Dawn Klavon, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2024
China has also added more road- and rail-mobile missile launchers to try to outfox American satellites and other detection technology.
—Chris Buckley, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
Can’t outfox the foxes Parrots and corvids have reputations as the brainiacs of the bird world.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2023
But Reece outfoxed her colleagues, demanding a county sitting on a $61 million budget surplus at the time to follow through on giving the full property tax rollback.
—Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 10 Aug. 2023
Even out of office, Karzai seems able to outfox the White House: witness his reported role in paving the way for the humiliating denouement of the U.S. war effort by negotiating with regional strongmen and Pakistani officials (or their proxies) to smooth the Taliban takeover.
—Sarah Chayes, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2021
The crucial question is whether AI detection will be able to outfox the AI that creates fake reviews.
—Annie Probert, NBC News, 22 July 2023
More than any other rivals in the brutal streaming wars, the two giants maneuver constantly to outfox one another.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 15 July 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1872, in the meaning defined above
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“Outfox.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outfox. Accessed 24 May. 2024.
Kids Definition
outfox
verb
out·fox
(ˈ)au̇t-ˈfäks
: outwit
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