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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
outcompete .
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Examples
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"What you're talking about is information operations, and the Taliban has always outcompeted us in that arena," Dressler said.
NATO troops kill Karzai's cousin in botched raid, Afghans say 2011
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The guy who got outcompeted by a woman for med school did something less lucrative and probably his wife too-hence income stratification.
Families and Inequality, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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"We are totally outcompeted even though our labor is cheaper than theirs," says Sofjan Wanandi , chairman of the Indonesian Employers Association.
China Forces Global Shift in Commerce David Wessel 2011
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He says one possibility is that the rabbit was "outcompeted" by a goat that also inhabited Minorca.
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On another front, we're being outcompeted bigtime by China, which is attracting more and more US capital investment.
Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte: Addressing Climate Change: A Tax Cut We Can All Agree On Mary Ellen Harte 2010
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"What you're talking about is information operations, and the Taliban has always outcompeted us in that arena," Dressler said.
NATO troops kill Karzai's cousin in botched raid, Afghans say 2011
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On another front, we're being outcompeted bigtime by China, which is attracting more and more US capital investment.
Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte: Addressing Climate Change: A Tax Cut We Can All Agree On Mary Ellen Harte 2010
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They not only outcompeted fellow microbes, they each ramped up their own internal metabolic machinery to digest the oil as efficiently as possible.
CBO says stimulus added jobs; home sales plunge; how MMS failed 2010
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Yet whatever the regulatory or other failings in the run-up and playing out of the financial crisis, it remains the case that the U.K. systemically outcompeted its Continental rivals for decades as a place to do business in the financial industry, and it has benefited in the form of job creation and, especially, tax revenue the financial sector pays some 12% of all the taxes collected in the U.K.
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That's one of the reasons why we no longer see self-replicating molecules in the wild — they were outcompeted by cells.
A Design Process 2008
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