outdo
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That in itself was a gift for Fifa, with the world's most recognisable players all showing up and trying to outdo each other.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Hitchcock gave Herrmann the choice of writing a new cantata, but Herrmann realized that nothing could outdo “Storm Clouds.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Even in abnormal political times, competition can be healthy, spurring journalists to match or outdo rival outlets.
From Slate ● Mar. 18, 2026
Arteta said the two had even taken their competitive spirit to trying to outdo each other in the gym, but were great friends off the pitch.
From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026
And it’s like everybody’s trying to outdo everyone else.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
"Considering that Fernando, he has done a very good job, like he normally does. He is a little special in that respect and outdoes a little bit the potential of the cars."
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2024
Hi Life opened in 2022 in that former auto shop you pass coming off the ferry, and the small space outdoes itself with an overwhelming menu and a super-happy vibe.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
And the plagiarism that these AI algorithms partake in is so subtle that it outdoes plagiarism in the ordinary sense: it takes other people’s work and synthesizes sources in ways typically untraceable.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 28, 2023
As this country's second-biggest weapons contractor, only Lockheed Martin outdoes it in annual defense revenues.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2023
If he has not Addison’s exquisite humour, he as certainly outdoes him in the tender and the pathetic.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
He said at that time that a sandwich intended to compete with Popeye’s was in the works, with “a very large hand-breaded chicken breast” that he suggested outdid rival sandwiches in size.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Adolf Hitler outdid Napoleon as history’s greatest art thief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
This year, Schmitt, a sitting senator, outdid them both.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025
Abel texted Nathan, “You really outdid yourself with this piece.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2024
Lunelle created me a hat that outdid every other hat she’d ever made, including June’s wedding hat.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
They were matched and even outdone by Mr. Colaneri’s bombastic conducting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Not wanting to be outdone by the other, Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe, Harry Kane and Erling Haaland all came out of the blocks firing in their respective nations' opening fixtures.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
As he told Womack, “As soon as I knew what music was, I immediately became obsessed with The Beatles. Within a few years we had completely outdone our parents in terms of fandom.”
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
Over the last year it has been outdone only by rival Sandisk among large-cap stocks.
From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026
Mark Antony may have spared no expense, but Cleopatra could not be outdone.
From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby
That’s not stopping some well-heeled tech companies from trying to keep outdoing each other in showing off higher-quality AI video generation at longer durations.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
That makes India a key market for planemakers, especially Airbus which has bagged the bulk of new orders, outdoing U.S. rival Boeing, and engine manufacturers whose wares will be put to test.
From Reuters ● Jun. 20, 2023
The Pacific Northwest is expecting the most unusual weather event for mid-May, with the region now outdoing its southern neighbors with extreme heat.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2023
"We're always going to be outdoing ourselves," says Renée.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2023
This was a wickedness far outdoing Snowball’s destruction of the windmill.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
