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outwrite

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[out-rahyt] / ˌaʊtˈraɪt /

verb (used with object)

outwrote, outwrit, outwritten, outwrit, outwriting
  1. to write more or better than.


Etymology

Origin of outwrite

First recorded in 1635–45; out- + write

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When a big story breaks, the Trib can throw a score of men on it to outreport and outwrite the opposition.

From Time Magazine Archive

He can often outwrite the average U.S. college freshman, as several studies have proved.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wagner* Newman can outwrite the cleverest of the sophisticates.

From Time Magazine Archive

This says, you have a noble pattern; but I hope I may say, you outwrite your copy.

From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by Kerr, James

"Let the Comedie Humaine write itself and it will outwrite Balzac."

From Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude by Bidwell, Austin

If they have since outwrit all other men, 'Tis with the drops which fell from Shakespeare's pen, The storm, which vanished on the neighbouring shore, Was taught by Shakespeare's Tempest first to roar.

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John

If they have since outwrit all other men, 'Tis with the drops which fell from Shakspeare's pen.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various

Will you permit me to say that I think Leigh Hunt would do the article you propose in a masterly manner, if he has not outwrit himself already upon the subject.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary

But Mackintosh, no less that Dr. Price, Mrs. Macaulay, and Mary Wollstonecraft, was outwritten and outsold by Paine.

From A Short History of English Liberalism by Blease, Walter Lyon

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