outwit
Example Sentences
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Maybe all the answers have already been written, and we’re just characters in a story, trying to outwit fate.
From Salon • May 19, 2026
She favors installing parental controls, even though wily children can outwit them, on grounds that some thwarting is better than none at all.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
But they are increasingly facing a crafty adversary: bacteria that mutate and adapt and outwit the very drugs designed to defeat them and cure the infections they cause.
From BBC • Dec. 4, 2024
Armed with their new knowledge, the team hopes to outwit bacteria by cutting off multiple pathways.
From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2024
In confidence, the old man tells me that he gave all thirteen sons the same name to try to outwit the regime.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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