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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
The bottom line: Retail traders seem to have outsmarted the smart money yet again.
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Felix Salmon,
Axios,
28 Jan. 2025
What her realization results in is a nearly 25-minute fight scene in the finale between Joe and Louise that ends with Louise outsmarting Joe at his own game and locking him up forever.
How Serena managed to outwit her Secret Service agents and end up on the late night news shows vexes Sutton, who’s trying to maintain a flawless and relatively low-key reputation as the first Black woman president of the North American nation.
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Lovia Gyarkye,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Apr. 2025
Their ultimate goal is to outwit, outplay, and outlast.
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.
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Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
13 Apr. 2025
Perhaps the shape rotators are convinced that computers can outthink us because their own minds are so impoverished.
After a strikeout, Luis Castillo hit a foul fly that Moises Alou jumped for, only to have his efforts thwarted by a fan making a play on the ball himself.
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Steve Svekis,
Sun Sentinel,
18 May 2025
This is not the only recent livestock smuggling attempt thwarted at a U.S.-Mexico border crossing in California.
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