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outguessed

verb

past tense of outguess

as in outsmarted

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For fun, its creator Antonio Prohias also introduced a third agent who often outsmarted both.

— Will Townsend, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
This disease did not retreat because the bacterium weakened or because humanity outsmarted it.

— Katrine L. Wallace, The Conversation, 29 July 2026

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To say that Cucurella was pleased, when the Spanish side outwitted the French in the semifinal, would be an understatement.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
For Deschamps and Stephan, there was no shortage of blame after Spain’s Luis de la Fuente outwitted the French coaching staff for the third time, following wins at the 2024 European Championship and last year’s Nations League semi-final.

— Adam Crafton, New York Times, 16 July 2026

Definition of outwitted

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Later, a woman protractedly licks blue ice cream from a cone, her attempts thwarted by ferocious gusts of wind and sand.

— Matilda Hague, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026
Any chance for a post-trade-deadline revenge night was thwarted when the Mercury ruled Kelsey Plum out ahead of Tuesday’s affair with a lower left leg injury.

— Kai Dizon, Daily News, 12 Aug. 2026

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For more than a decade, India’s leader Narendra Modi has seemed politically unassailable, presiding over a government that has outmaneuvered opponents, dominated public discourse and squeezed the space for dissent in the world’s biggest democracy.

— Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 28 July 2026
In the end, Seattle outmaneuvered and outbodied the Sparks, snatching steals and flipping the ball around the perimeter until the Storm fired off a shot.

— Liana Handler, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026

Definition of outmaneuvered

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Wealthy clients, who pay a premium for privacy, are increasingly frustrated by influencers and reviewrs disrupting their experiences with filming and photo shoots.

— Doug Gollan, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Neighbors in Reisterstown, Maryland, say they are frustrated after losing power for the seventh time since June.

— Tara Lynch, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of frustrated

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She is baffled by the way her friends Moe and Fumina rail against their parents, especially when Yuko is always holding back at home, forever walking on eggshells.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2026
Al Roker was baffled to come face to face with his doppelgänger on the Today show plaza.

— Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of baffled

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Democratic activists balked, Hilton stepped down and investments dried up.

— Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 10 Aug. 2026
And, while other states had balked at the fifty-million-dollar price tag that Hubbard deemed necessary for the clinical trials, Texas had ended the year with a twenty-four-billion-dollar budget surplus from oil and gas revenues.

— Michelle Lhooq, New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of balked

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Ultimately, Judge Darwin ruled in favor of the California Gaming Association, reaffirming its argument that the Bureau of Gambling Control overreached by attempting to impose new regulations.

— Noe Padilla, USA Today, 7 July 2026
The defense argued that the encounters were consensual and that the government had overreached.

— Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 9 Mar. 2026

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