outwork
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If he couldn’t outrun or outthrow the competition, he was determined to outwork and outsmart them—even if that meant he didn’t have time for much else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
I think he will outwork Eubank and might stop him, but I am edging towards a Benn victory on points in an absolute thriller.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025
“She runs harder and runs faster than her opponents. Nobody’s going to outwork her.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2024
“At the time I was just trying to outwork everybody.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
If its attorneys do not outsmart you, they will outwork you, and if they can’t outwork you, they’ll win through sheer intimidation.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
De Zerbi's side never appeared to recover from the incident and, after the break, were outworked and outplayed by the home side.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
Some trained engineers looked down on him, but "he really outworked everybody," Diamos says.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
One reason for his primary win is that he simply outworked Stevens, visiting over 110 cities, according to his campaign, holding over 500 public events and, in the process, building a genuine movement.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
“We just got outworked tonight,” Jazz coach Will Hardy said.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2024
To the last, looking as if he was bowed down to the point of exhaustion by his labours, he outworked all his subordinates.
From The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster by Harold Begbie
"We are talking a lot about moving the ball, being aggressive, outworking teams. Our players buy into that."
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2025
“A lot of guys’ niches is shooting the ball, working hard, outworking guys.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2023
Dunford, asked about the barriers that Gen. Stewart faced, said that his friend and colleague “knew it might be harder for him than others,” and believed that he could overcome obstacles by outworking others.
From Washington Post ● May 1, 2023
He said that was the secret to Mr. Seper’s success: “It’s not smoke and mirrors and tricks, it’s outworking other people.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 25, 2022
Catie's share lay in the crafty outworking of the plan.
From The Brentons by Wilson C. Dexter
Our position, fortified by the facts and reasonings in the preceding pages, is, that spirits—departed human beings—generated and outwrought Salem witchcraft.
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam
But man feels the aspirations for a superior life, a soaring out of and above the physical senses; he feels the promptings of duty, of right, of justice and truth, outwrought from his innermost being.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle
Great changes and advances of either a material, mental, political, social, or spiritual world are, like births, generally outwrought through anguish and sufferings.
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam
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