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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
outrival .
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Examples
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I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all.
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Its obscenity outrivals that of the preceding text, and the grammar, style, and curiosa felicitas Petroniana make it an almost perfect imitation.
Satyricon 2007
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Its obscenity outrivals that of the preceding text, and the grammar, style, and curiosa felicitas Petroniana make it an almost perfect imitation.
The Satyricon — Volume 01: Introduction 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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She outrivals Paris in a daring display of fashion.
What's in the New York Evening Journal America's Greatest Evening Newspaper New York Evening Journal
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For ragged and jagged cliffs of almost total barrenness, and yawning chasms lined with intolerable precipices, the Moon outrivals the Earth.
Life in a Thousand Worlds William Shuler Harris
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Its obscenity outrivals that of the preceding text, and the grammar, style, and curiosa felicitas Petroniana make it an almost perfect imitation.
The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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It certainly outrivals Berlin in life and brilliancy, as Berlin outshines
The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 Various
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The aard vark outrivals, with his great claws, the most skilled burrowing tools of man.
The Human Side of Animals Royal Dixon 1923
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There is nothing in the annals of human history that outrivals the unselfishness that founded and has maintained these institutions for half a century.
Documenting the American South: Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1911
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Then would I lead you to the edge of some bluff that outrivals the Palisades – and let you look down the dizzy heights 500 feet to the green meadows, the blooming orchards, the acres of pulque plant, the little homes that nestle at the foot of this strange wall.
Six Months in Mexico 1888
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