Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outfought
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Ohtani outdid himself again Monday night with another performance for the ages in Game 3 of the World Series, and Freeman’s walk-off homer in the 18th inning gave the Los Angeles Dodgers a 6-5 win over the Toronto Blue Jays—a game that’s tied for the longest Fall Classic contest ever.—
Barry M. Bloom,
Sportico.com,
28 Oct. 2025 -
The second-generation car, by contrast, was an evolution, but a rare sequel that outdid its predecessor.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
28 Oct. 2025
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Earlier in 2025, Suni Williams surpassed Whitson's record for the most total time any woman has spent on spacewalks.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
2 Nov. 2025
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Just days after long time tech darling surpassed $4 trillion in market cap, Apple delivered an earnings report that beat on both the top and bottom.—
Jeff Kilburg,
CNBC,
31 Oct. 2025
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The Pistons matchup represents the second straight game in a back-to-back slate of bouts for Cleveland, who vanquished the Milwaukee Bucks on Sunday, 118-113, despite a mammoth 40-point, 14-rebound, nine-assist night from two-time league MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo.—
Alex Kirschenbaum,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
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Their work wasn’t done yet though; the pair may have vanquished the queens, but still had to finish off the title.—
Todd Boss,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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In the process, Brooks observes, story has eclipsed rational argument as the dominant purveyor of social, political, and historical truths.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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According to Nielsen’s rating, so far this season there have been 28 college football games that have eclipsed 5 million viewers.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Oct. 2025
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Building on that winning foundation, the 458 Speciale, built from 2013 to 2015, exceeded the limits of any other Ferrari V-8 of the period.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
28 Oct. 2025
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Senior design editor Zoë Sessums states that the Woolroom pillow exceeded her expectations, both in the sleep feel and the production process’s transparency.—
Kate McGregor,
Architectural Digest,
28 Oct. 2025
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These losses far outstripped any gains Tesla might have made with Republican buyers as a result of Musk’s MAGA activism, per the report.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
30 Oct. 2025
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Similar concerns are upsetting older adults in Sunnyvale, where a program that serves healthy meals to residents aged 60 and older, as well as their spouses and disabled dependents, increasingly has to turn people away as demand has outstripped the program’s funding.—
Panashe Matemba-Mutasa,
Mercury News,
27 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, majorities said the Republican president has definitely or probably not improved the functioning of government (59%) or bettered the nation’s standing on the world stage (60%).—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
9 Oct. 2025
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And then a burly Irishman saw his competition hit the shot of his golfing life, and bettered him.—
Hugh Kellenberger,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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The Spanish subjugated and enslaved the indigenous population of the Canaries—the Guanches—exporting some of them to Madeira or Europe, while others were forced to labor on Canarian sugar plantations.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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All expanded the Russian empire -- and subjugated the people and areas that now form Ukraine.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Outfought.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outfought. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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