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In 2020, we all gained a new appreciation for the power of storytelling, amid a news cycle that seemed determined to outdo itself every week.

When they subsequently managed to fingerprint her, she seemed to have outdone Dillinger.

Not to be outdone, North Korea bans all religious practice of any kind.

Not to be outdone, South Korea has a small drone of its own, one with perhaps the best drone name ever: Devil Killer.

President Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, and the State Department were not to be outdone by their domestic critics.

The co-stars of Pineapple Express and Freaks and Geeks have really outdone themselves this time.

The host, not to be outdone, was sitting with his feet on the railing of the stove, but as far from the spittoon as possible.

All the knights swore that he had outdone all the cavaliers of the tourney, and must receive the chief prize.

An Indian chief, excelling all his tribe at a war-dance, could not have outdone the grotesque movements of the colonel.

Long before Mr. Gladstone had concluded, everyone admitted that the effect of Mr. Disraeli's speech had been outdone and outshone.

Not to be outdone in courtesy, the French police soon escorted him to the official lodging-house.