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as in outmaneuvered
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as in speculated (about)
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for second-guessed
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Footage released by the Philippine government shows a Chinese coast guard cutter colliding with a People's Liberation Army Navy destroyer after being outmaneuvered by a Philippine fisheries bureau vessel.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
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That one of the biggest and most economically central industries got outmaneuvered by a sector that was, until recently, on the fringes speaks to the new pecking order.—
Rachel Witkowski,
semafor.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Understanding that their business model was under threat, pop music’s titans initially balked at streaming.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
10 Oct. 2025
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Mayor Alysson Snow and Mayor Pro-Tem Jennifer Mendoza balked at introducing new candidates.—
Hannah Elsmore,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Oct. 2025
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If Newman couldn’t have killed Scott, the police reasoned, perhaps his brother had.—
Eren Orbey,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Gooding reasoned that the law provides an answer to this twist.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
13 Oct. 2025
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Though Penn State had a key injury with linebacker Tony Rojas sidelined, Knowles was also outwitted by Neuheisel, who only took over the role for the Bruins earlier this week.—
Cameron Teague Robinson,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
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Some of the material had only been discovered in the last few years and is just starting to be analyzed.—
Heather McRea,
Oc Register,
16 Oct. 2025
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The researchers also only analyzed stool samples, which means microbial changes in some gut regions could have been missed.—
Angelica Stabile,
FOXNews.com,
16 Oct. 2025
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Incensed at being outsmarted, the CEO of Weyland-Yutani (Sandra Yi Sencindive) allows one of her employees, a cyborg with very few scruples named Morrow (Babou Ceesay), to use any means necessary to reacquire the biological specimens.—
Josh Weiss,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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This solution also outsmarted existing industry tools like Gurobi on large-scale delivery simulations.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Aug. 2025
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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The map below shows the rankings for 500 of the schools WalletHub reviewed.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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Most of those aerial attacks were thwarted by Ukraine or otherwise failed, the air force said.—
Lilia Geho,
ABC News,
16 Oct. 2025
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Evans said he wasn’t thwarted by the brand’s adoption among Robinson and other political figures because of their lowbrow tastes.—
Steve Salter,
CNN Money,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Second-guessed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/second-guessed. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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