Thesaurus results for OUTTHINK

outthink

verb

ˌau̇t-ˈthiŋk

as in to outwit

to get the better of through cleverness the company's growth is due in large part to its marketing division's ability to outthink the competition

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Recent Examples of outthink Some of the game’s biggest stars have already voiced frustration over trying to outthink the robots. —

Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2026 Digital computers may eventually outthink us, but that will remain all action without experience. —

Shai Tubali, Big Think, 27 Mar. 2026 As loyalties blur and tensions erupt, survival depends on who can outthink – and outgun – everyone else. —

Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 13 Jan. 2026 The real edge is in responsiveness − the ability to outthink, outproduce and outmaneuver its competitor. —

Andrew Latham, The Conversation, 29 Oct. 2025 Altman, always the AI optimist, has previously touted AI’s potential to someday outthink humans, but the technology’s past three years of progress since OpenAI kicked off the AI arms race with ChatGPT’s release have shown him this moment could come sooner rather than later. —

Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2025 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. —

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. —

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. —

Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 26 June 2024

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Towering over the town is another, much bigger, Venetian fort, the Palamidhi (named after Palamedes, Nafplio’s legendarily clever local hero, who outwitted Odysseus and, well, didn’t live long enough to regret it).

— Helen Brown, TheWeek, 30 Apr. 2026
Twenty-six years ago, students treated a visit by then-President Bill Clinton as a challenge, and outwitted the Secret Service by secretly rigging a banner to unfurl at an inopportune moment.

— Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2026