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outwork

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


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“She may be being outspent — Democrats are being outspent in most places, and Black women are always outspent. What she has said is people can’t outwork her.”

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

If he couldn’t outrun or outthrow the competition, he was determined to outwork and outsmart them—even if that meant he didn’t have time for much else.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

“It felt so fulfilling to wake up and think, ‘I’m going to outwork everybody around me and be more creative than them.’”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

I think he will outwork Eubank and might stop him, but I am edging towards a Benn victory on points in an absolute thriller.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025

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

USC was outshot 53% to 27% by its rival, outrebounded 46 to 26 and outworked in pretty much every sense of the word.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2026

The crowd attempted to rouse McCann with a succession of "Molly" chants, but it was in vain as the Brazilian outworked her on the floor before securing a rear naked choke.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2025

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

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2023

She crisscrossed the district, outworking her opponent and reminding voters of her bipartisan record.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 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

"We’ve got to bear down on our clears, on our entries, and back to outworking PPs that are out there."

From Fox News ● Mar. 30, 2022

He is too tremendously wrapped up in the outworking of His plans.

From Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon

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

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

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


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