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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

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

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




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