outsmart
to get the better of (someone); outwit.
Idioms about outsmart
outsmart oneself, to defeat oneself unintentionally by overly elaborate intrigue, scheming, or the like: This time he may have outsmarted himself.
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How to use outsmart in a sentence
Enabling a fast-paced, cloud-powered collaboration culture is critical to rapidly growing companies, positioning them to out innovate, outperform, and outsmart their competitors.
Finally, if Facebook is going to engage in federal legislation around issues like privacy restrictions, new antitrust standards or the repeal of Section 230, they should stop trying to outsmart and outspend everyone.
Getting there required a secret alliance that outsmarted the show’s troubled history.
The idea of pulling off the perfect crime, outsmarting the law, and making your getaway — in the movies, it’d been romanticized.
If such mutations originate in areas without widespread vaccine coverage, they may continue to evolve enough to outsmart currently authorized vaccines.
The First COVID-19 Vaccines Shipped Through COVAX Were Administered in the Ivory Coast | Jamie Ducharme | March 1, 2021 | Time
With no weapons onboard, the crew is forced to outsmart the pirates.
Tom Hanks on His Riveting Oscar Moment That Ends ‘Captain Phillips’ | Marlow Stern | October 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThis is where you can outsmart the regime with cunning patience.
Former East Timor President José Ramos-Horta’s Advice For Syrian Rebels | José Ramos-Horta | July 17, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHe tried to outsmart the instructors by resting the back of his head on a buoy in the pool.
But like millions of others, I went through phases when I was cocksure I could outsmart the market.
With his self-centered juvenile mind, he never thought anyone would try to outsmart him and succeed.
Unwise Child | Gordon Randall GarrettJust stay alive and you can outsmart these savages, he repeated ironically to himself.
The Syndic | C.M. KornbluthA half-crazy kid and yours truly trying to outsmart and out-Tarzan these wild men.
The Syndic | C.M. KornbluthDon't try to outsmart your interrogator by giving false information.
I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon | Richard SabiaIt's cat and mouse, who can outsmart whom, hunter versus hunted fun.
Little Brother | Cory Doctorow
British Dictionary definitions for outsmart
/ (ˌaʊtˈsmɑːt) /
(tr) informal to get the better of; outwit
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