noun
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(often plural) defences which lie outside main defensive works
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work performed away from the factory, office, etc, by which it has been commissioned
verb
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to work better, harder, etc, than
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to work out to completion
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Origin of outwork
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Unable to outrun or outthrow other players, Tom Brady had to outwork and outsmart them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
I think he will outwork Eubank and might stop him, but I am edging towards a Benn victory on points in an absolute thriller.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025
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
“She runs harder and runs faster than her opponents. Nobody’s going to outwork her.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2024
But his eyes always seem hopeful when he says that I can outwork talent over the long haul, and so for him—and for me too—I try my best to do just that.
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
Some trained engineers looked down on him, but "he really outworked everybody," Diamos says.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
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
USC was still outworked on the glass, where it has struggled all season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024
"I felt our fitness as well in the second half, we outworked the defence and that created chances for us."
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2024
It is said that if he disliked a fellow pressman and wished to be rid of him, he merely put forth his immense strength and outworked him.
From Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by James Dabney McCabe
“Winning an Iowa caucus requires a strong combination of outworking and out-organizing the competition and that’s been the Ron DeSantis model.”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
The Burton-upon-Trent fighter began well, doubling up on his jabs and outworking Wach in the opening rounds.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2023
She crisscrossed the district, outworking her opponent and reminding voters of her bipartisan record.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2022
The Hawks then found their long-distance shot and began outworking the Bulls under the basket.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2022
He is too tremendously wrapped up in the outworking of His plans.
From Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon
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
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
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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