as in outwitted
to get the better of through cleverness
the prisoners outfoxed the guards by tunneling beneath the prison walls
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Recent Examples of outfoxed
He was outfoxed, outplayed and frustrated by the calm version of Daniil Medvedev in 2023, and lost in straight sets to Botic van De Zandschulp in the second round last year.
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Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
No doubt remained that I’d been outfoxed.
—Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
No doubt remained that I’d been outfoxed.
—Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outfoxed
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In a stunner, Hollis defeated Morgan Pope to win Part 3 of the three-part HOH competition.—
Christopher Kuhagen,
jsonline.com,
28 Sep. 2025
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Viktor Hovland, who had defeated Henley and Scheffler alongside teammate Robert MacIntyre with a 1-up score, was ruled out of the four-ball due to a neck injury.—
Devlina Sarkar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
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Incensed at being outsmarted, the CEO of Weyland-Yutani (Sandra Yi Sencindive) allows one of her employees, a cyborg with very few scruples named Morrow (Babou Ceesay), to use any means necessary to reacquire the biological specimens.—
Josh Weiss,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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This solution also outsmarted existing industry tools like Gurobi on large-scale delivery simulations.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Aug. 2025
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Footage released by the Philippine government shows a Chinese coast guard cutter colliding with a People's Liberation Army Navy destroyer after being outmaneuvered by a Philippine fisheries bureau vessel.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
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That one of the biggest and most economically central industries got outmaneuvered by a sector that was, until recently, on the fringes speaks to the new pecking order.—
Rachel Witkowski,
semafor.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The lawsuit, filed by the FTC in June 2023 under the Biden administration, alleges that Amazon deceived tens of millions of customers into signing up for its Prime subscription program and sabotaged their attempts to cancel it.—
Annie Palmer,
CNBC,
23 Sep. 2025
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Soto and her twins say both families were deceived – their family in Chile and their adoptive parents in Italy who didn’t know the girls had been taken away from their biological mother without her consent.—
Rafael Romo,
CNN Money,
16 Sep. 2025
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Several church members thwarted what would have likely been a mass shooting, including one who, driving a pickup truck, saw the suspect in the parking lot and hit him.—
Detroit Free Press,
Freep.com,
28 Sep. 2025
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In less than 48 hours since Friday night, authorities counted 41 crossing attempts, some of them thwarted, along the Pas-de-Calais coastline that police patrol day and night, the prefecture said in a statement.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
28 Sep. 2025
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Under its Venusian spell, beauty, truth and harmony take center stage, but don’t be fooled as the weeks ahead are action-packed.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
22 Sep. 2025
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And kudos to [visual effects supervisor] Rob Legato and team for coming up with something that fooled Buzz Aldrin.—
Aaron Couch,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Sep. 2025
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New York overcame strong winds and a five-run lead by the Chicago Cubs to win Tuesday night’s showdown.—
Will Sammon,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2025
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Beyond fusion reactor walls Pan Hongtao, a researcher at the Institute of Plasma Physics, said the team overcame materials, sensors, and control systems hurdles to build the platform.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Outfoxed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outfoxed. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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