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outwitted

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Since 2009, Mr. Netanyahu has consistently outwitted them, governing for all but one year.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 28, 2025

This is the story of how they were outwitted by fake buyers and sting operations - conducted by a small European charity.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2023

Early cancer vaccine research faltered as cancer outwitted and outlasted patients’ weak immune systems, said Olja Finn, a vaccine researcher at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

From Washington Times Jun. 26, 2023

Just before Rometty became IBM’s first woman CEO, the company’s AI-powered computer Watson outwitted two of the most successful contestants in the history of the game show “Jeopardy!”

From Seattle Times Mar. 27, 2023

But if anybody had outwitted Al Ulbrickson, it was his own coxswain— the short kid with his own Phi Beta Kappa key.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown