outwit

Example Sentences

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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

Armed with their new knowledge, the team hopes to outwit bacteria by cutting off multiple pathways.

From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2024

They’ll need to outwit him, first and foremost, and they prove that they can.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2024

By deploying thousands of autonomous UAVs, USVs, UUVs and UGVs, she suggested, the U.S. military would be able to outwit, outmaneuver, and overpower China’s military, the People’s Liberation Army.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2024

Our talk was a game; he was trying to outwit me.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright