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Recent Examples of outwit Director Kevin Lima dials up the wackiness, and Close follows accordingly, mugging and screeching as Cruella is outwitted by various bumbling dogs and eventually defeated by being baked into a giant cake, somehow. 23. Josh Bell, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025 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. Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2025 Virgil van Dijk got outwitted by the combative Rodrigo Muniz for Fulham’s third. James Pearce, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025 Children outwitting their parents in the technology stakes is clearly rife. John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for outwit
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  • 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.
    Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The trio must tag team to outsmart a cunning international thief and save a priceless diamond gauntlet — just in time for Christmas.
    Brian Welk, IndieWire, 15 Apr. 2025
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  • The Guna have long thwarted real-estate developers and foreign investors eyeing both the shore and the uninhabited islands, which are a postcard vision of paradise.
    Mark Johanson, AFAR Media, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The Knights center used his stick to thwart a clearing attempt by Wild defenseman Brock Faber at the side of the net, then grabbed the loose puck and fired it into a tiny gap over Gustavsson’s right shoulder to give the home team the early lead.
    Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 21 Apr. 2025
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  • Jurors found Peters guilty in August for using someone else’s security badge to give an expert affiliated with My Pillow chief executive Mike Lindell access to the Mesa County election system and deceiving other officials about that person’s identity.
    Colleen Slevin, Twin Cities, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Stribling tried to deceive officers by saying Bailei was shot in a robbery, The Detroit News reported.
    Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2025
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  • In Brazil’s 2023 Presidential election, Lula da Silva defeated Jair Bolsonaro by less than two percentage points.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Both competitors defeated four female opponents each to get to the championship bout.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2025
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  • Not without its controversy, like life, the show has tried to demonstrate that family can overcome anything with love, laughter, and conversation.
    DeVonne Goode, Parents, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Trailing 0-2, the Heat now faces a series deficit that not many NBA teams have overcome.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2025
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  • In the most iconic scene, he gets outfoxed on the subway by the French drug lord on a subway, playing cat-and-mouse on the platform.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The most challenging part of a campaign for Crimea may not be outfoxing Russia.
    Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Foreign Affairs, 2 Jan. 2023
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  • That was probably a terrible decision, in fairness, but Meazza responded by faking a shot to fool a defender, then teed up Piola to score.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
  • While the towering shoes may seem intimidating, don’t let their large, often chunky heels fool you: PLatform shoes are among the most comfortable heels in any wardrobe.
    Nina Derwin, Glamour, 17 Apr. 2025
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  • 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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“Outwit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outwit. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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