outdone

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Jets Not to Be Outdone by Metrodome Roof Today’s N.F.L. extra credit question is to decide which event in an eventful weekend represented the bigger collapse.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2010

Outdone by the Senate committee's dalliance, President Roosevelt summoned its entire membership to the White House for a heart-to-heart.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sixtus Beckmesser remained triumphant, and Walter left the church while the Masters pronounced the decree,— "Outdone and outsung."

From Great Opera Stories Taken from Original Sources in Old German by Bender, Millicent Schwab

Our greatest ladies love to see their scorn Outdone by thine, in what themselves have worn; 10 Th' impatient widow, ere the year be done, Sees thy Aspasia weeping in her gown.

From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Denham, John, Sir