outbid

If ISIS fails in its quest to outbid and spoil the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, it could very well be on the path of total defeat.
Why ISIS Attacked the Kabul Airport—and What’s Coming Next|Dennis Murphy|August 27, 2021|The Daily Beast
It’s challenging to work with families here who have good jobs and have saved up money over the years, only to be outbid by cash buyers from outside the valley, sight unseen.
Did the Pandemic Finally End the Modern-Day Ski Bum?|syadron|August 5, 2021|Outside Online
Marketplace’s lead anecdote in a story titled “Institutional investors are still competition for homebuyers” is about a first-time buyer who bid on six houses and was outbid by all-cash offers.
Wall Street isn’t to blame for the chaotic housing market|Jerusalem Demsas|June 11, 2021|Vox
Marketplace reported the same, noting one buyer had been outbid six times by all-cash offers.
Wall Street isn’t to blame for the chaotic housing market|Jerusalem Demsas|June 11, 2021|Vox

In this case, the campaign was set up to run only on our site and to outbid any competing advertisers.
This tool lets you confuse Google’s ad network, and a test shows it works|Konstantin Kakaes|January 6, 2021|MIT Technology Review
Fox Sports outbid ESPN and NBC for the rights to the next World Cup, counting on even greater soccermania four years from now.
Rupert Murdoch Bets a Half-Billion Dollars That the Next World Cup Will Be Even Bigger in America|Evan Weiner|June 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
You will be able to outbid Obama and the Democrats in any tax-cut fight.
Doomsday Conservatives: Too Many Hormones, Too Little Plan|David Frum|December 12, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Other Hamas leaders were trying to outbid Meshaal, just as Hamas in general tries to outbid the PA.
Meshaal’s Speech: “Mish Ma’ool”|Hussein Ibish|December 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST
People with higher incomes can bid up and outbid people with less money for desirable goods and services, in this case, housing.
Will DC Become a World City?|Megan McArdle|October 2, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Berkshire Hathaway got outbid, but still made nearly $1 billion on the deal.
Buffett's Damage Control|Allan Dodds Frank|May 1, 2011|DAILY BEAST
If there was, he would be the man to say it rather than allow himself to be outbid by mob-leaders of the socialistic feather.
Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8|Various
Austria must throw itself entirely into the hands of France,—and endeavor to outbid your Majesty.'
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XIII. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle
The people, in gratitude for the past, and in anxiety for the future, outbid one another in servility to Russia.
The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8)|Various
Many people wished to buy the cow, but the young man outbid them all, and at length offered all his seventy piasters for her.
Serbian Folk-lore|Anonymous
So he came up to the old man, and, having outbid all the other would-be purchasers, paid at once the price he had agreed on.
Serbian Folk-lore|Anonymous

British Dictionary definitions for outbid

outbid

/ (ˌaʊtˈbɪd) /

verb -bids, -bidding, -bid, -bidden or -bid

(tr) to bid higher than; outdo in bidding

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