outwork
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“I’m trying to outwork the contract,” Snoop said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
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
“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
“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
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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
“We just got outworked tonight,” Jazz coach Will Hardy said.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 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
To the last, looking as if he was bowed down to the point of exhaustion by his labours, he outworked all his subordinates.
From The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster by Harold Begbie
Catterall, 31, was at times outworking and outmanoeuvring his 33-year-old opponent, landing smart counter punches, but Barboza ended the rounds strongly, with crisp and well-timed power shots.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025
Dunford, asked about the barriers that Gen. Stewart faced, said that his friend and colleague “knew it might be harder for him than others,” and believed that he could overcome obstacles by outworking others.
From Washington Post ● May 1, 2023
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
They’ve simply played harder, outworking teams to get an edge.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2022
The outworking of the coup de main was a triumph for the old borderer's shrewd generalship.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde
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
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