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outwork

[out-wurk, out-wurk] / ˌaʊtˈwɜrk, ˈaʊtˌwɜrk /


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“I’m trying to outwork the contract,” Snoop said.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 12, 2026

“You’ve got to get in there and outwork them, outthink them, outperform them,” Dennis had told his son, “until there’s no doubt in anybody’s mind that you should be in there.”

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 31, 2024

I understood where my talents were, and I knew I was going to have to outwork people, I knew I was going to have to outsmart.

From Salon Aug. 22, 2023

Light on her feet, Scotney continued to outwork her opponent.

From BBC Jun. 10, 2023

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

“We just got outworked tonight,” Jazz coach Will Hardy said.

From Seattle Times Jan. 29, 2024

LeBron James and Anthony Davis couldn’t prevent the Lakers from being outworked and outscored in the second half of a 130-112 loss to the Brooklyn Nets.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 21, 2024

As a candidate in Iowa, Mr. Trump was often conspicuously outworked by his competitors.

From New York Times Jan. 16, 2024

Former Aston Villa midfielder Andy Townsend on Amazon Prime: "I don't think Guardiola has seen his side outmanoeuvred and outworked as much as he has tonight. Villa have dominated Manchester City."

From BBC Dec. 6, 2023

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 Millard, Max

The Burton-upon-Trent fighter began well, doubling up on his jabs and outworking Wach in the opening rounds.

From BBC Jun. 16, 2023

So, on a Tuesday night when the increasingly undermanned St. Louis Blues actually showed up for work, the Kraken secured a badly needed victory, 5-3, by outworking them at key moments.

From Seattle Times Feb. 28, 2023

“I think our coaching staff has done a good job with us. … I feel like we’re outcompeting teams, outworking them and finding ways to win hockey games. I think we’re all having a blast.”

From Washington Post Dec. 25, 2022

He said that was the secret to Mr. Seper’s success: “It’s not smoke and mirrors and tricks, it’s outworking other people.”

From Washington Times Oct. 25, 2022

This is, and has always been the unfailing law of progression, of the outworking of the ascending series.

From Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul by Scofield, Anna Bishop

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 Putnam, Allen

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 Tuttle, Hudson

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 Putnam, Allen




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