outwit

Example Sentences

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Buoyed by a strong Arsenal following among a record crowd in London, they outplayed and outwitted their long-standing rivals to claim a sixth League Cup.

From BBC

In it, he plays an honest schoolteacher who gains fame after a classroom rant about corruption goes viral online and becomes president, going on to outwit crooked lawmakers and businessmen.

From Reuters

Republicans have pledged to use their new, if narrow, House majority to frustrate his plans and cast him before the American public as too old and outwitted to deserve a second term.

From Washington Post

But some might find all that preferable to harboring the constant suspicion that they’re being outwitted by a bot.

From Washington Post

In a childhood where I might not be able to outmuscle my bullies, I could verbally outwit them.

From Salon