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Recent Examples of outguessThe Fed and the Markets both appear to be trying to outguess each other.—George Calhoun, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
Ben Shapiro, Pete Buttigieg, Michael Knowles, Alex O’Connor—these are professional debaters capable of outwitting and outreasoning almost any audience member unfamiliar with traditional debate techniques, regardless of the topic or claim being considered.
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Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
8 Aug. 2025
The irony was that the filmmaking team did this by going small: the third act of that 2013 movie as newly penned by Damon Lindelof and Drew Goddard famously featured a much quieter and more intimate ending in which Pitt walks carefully to outwit a single zombie.
Flat, flexible teams outmaneuver rigid command chains.
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Steve Denning,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
The encounter took place less than two weeks after a confrontation at another South China Sea hot spot—Scarborough Shoal—that saw a Chinese navy destroyer and a China coast guard ship collide after being outmaneuvered by a smaller Philippine coast guard cutter.
Geoff Hinton, one of the most influential voices in artificial intelligence, warned that humanity is running out of time to prepare for machines that outthink us.
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Ron Schmelzer,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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.
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.
In a lengthy dissent, Oldham complained his two colleagues were second-guessing Trump's conduct of foreign affairs and national security, realms where courts usually give the president great deference.
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Robert Birsel
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
Empowering Educators With Behavioral Insights A common concern among educators is that new data systems might be burdensome or even second-guess their professional judgment.
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