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Recent Examples of outfight
But the 6-foot-3, 201-pound Coleman is the epitome of a receiver who makes high-point catches, catches balls with his hands not his body and will outfight defensive backs for the football.
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Kirk Bohls, Houston Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2026
Kirk Bohls, Houston Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outfight
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The Prep would not be outdone by scoring twice in the final 30 seconds of the first.—
Erik Anderson,
Boston Herald,
10 June 2026
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Not to be outdone, Vikingo hit a desperation crucifix driver.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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That requirement could give them power to better the city’s rotten hand, even if only in a small way, some aldermen believe.—
Jake Sheridan,
Chicago Tribune,
8 June 2026
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Overall, Hungary scored 25 goals in their four matches en route to the final, with Kocsis’ 11 for the tournament only bettered by France’s Just Fontaine’s 13 in 1958.—
Will Jeanes,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
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The games were neither displays of baseball elegance nor overpowering runaways.—
Ken Sugiura,
AJC.com,
8 June 2026
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Slaten began in top form, overpowering Goldschmidt and likely American League MVP contender Ben Rice, but Bellinger retook the lead for New York with a home run to right-center.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
7 June 2026
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Seven decades later that number has climbed to seventy-three, while those in the richest nations have surpassed an average of over fourscore years, a number the Bible reserves for only the most vigorous among us.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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In the meantime, there is a World Cup to win and Os Magricos to surpass.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
10 June 2026
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In a country like India, subjugated early in the history of capitalist imperialism, and then bullied after independence by the West, a degree of self-renunciation and collective sacrifice was widely understood to be requisite to economic and political self-strengthening.—
Wyatt Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
2 June 2026
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This campy, reality-shifting comedy series questions what would happen if a flaming misogynist woke up in a world that was completely matriarchal and subjugated men based on their gender.—
Madeleine Janz,
PEOPLE,
30 Apr. 2026
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Deficits are expected to grow over the next decade as the costs of Social Security and Medicare outstrip tax revenues.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
1 June 2026
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Meanwhile the debt compounds, contributing to interest payments that now outstrip the annual cost of the military.—
Matt Peterson,
CNBC,
27 May 2026
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The easy pick is San Antonio, which just vanquished the all-world defending-champion Thunder.—
Chris Branch,
New York Times,
3 June 2026
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In the previous episode, Tom and Wyck went to great lengths to vanquish Richard Warren — the walking-dead corpse of Widow's Bay's founder, played by Hamish Linklater.—
Benjamin VanHoose,
PEOPLE,
3 June 2026
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In other words, the moon is not a threat to outshine any of the three planets.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
8 June 2026
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Not to be outshined, Casio G-Shock’s Grogu model branded as the Baby-G comes in a distinctive bright neon-green hue in honor of Din Djarin’s little Force-wielding apprentice.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
2 June 2026
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“Outfight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outfight. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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