outwork
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Unable to outrun or outthrow other players, Tom Brady had to outwork and outsmart them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
“He said, ‘Listen, Martin, no one’s going to outwork me, no one’s going to outwork this program,’” Jarmond said on the day of Foster’s introductory news conference.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2025
We spoke after the first season of “Mo” came out and you talked about how as an immigrant, your mentality is you have to outwork everybody.
From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2025
“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
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
Through the game’s first 15 minutes, the Trojans were outhustled and outworked on the glass as the Roadrunners drew fouls, forced turnovers and racked up seven early offensive rebounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
“We just got outworked tonight,” Jazz coach Will Hardy said.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2024
Griffith, the father of motion pictures, used to say there were only two people who outworked him — Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish.
From 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s by Max Millard
The reduction is the local outworking of two schemes which apply in Great Britain, which has a separately regulated electricity market.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
“Winning an Iowa caucus requires a strong combination of outworking and out-organizing the competition and that’s been the Ron DeSantis model.”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
“A lot of guys’ niches is shooting the ball, working hard, outworking guys.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2023
She crisscrossed the district, outworking her opponent and reminding voters of her bipartisan record.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2022
It is in the future, in the outworking, that the good is to come.
From Making the Most of Life by J. R. (James Russell) Miller
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
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
