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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of outsmart.

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Examples

  • Yes, Professor, online sources and resources have indeed become the order of the day - wherein quality standards go for a toss, and reference editing expertise gets 'outsmarted'!

    On Chambers DC 2009

  • CLARK: Well, you know, he really kind of outsmarted himself.

    CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2009 2009

  • We thus find ourselves "outsmarted" by single-celled organisms and things like viruses that are barely even alive, much less intelligent.

    Archive 2009-08-01 James F. McGrath 2009

  • We thus find ourselves "outsmarted" by single-celled organisms and things like viruses that are barely even alive, much less intelligent.

    Outsmarted by the Unintelligent James F. McGrath 2009

  • It frightens them, as it reminds them of the time they were 'outsmarted' by someone.

    Poll: Majority To Left Of Democrats On Iraq 2009

  • Ah, well, we just may have "outsmarted" ourselves, perhaps as a result of creation of the technologies we are now so dependent on and have begun to realize, belatedly, have also outstripped our ability to regulate within the population increase's hyperbolic upward curve and in co-evolutionary harmony with the finite resources and resiliancy of our planet's biosphere.

    Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

  • So people have kind of outsmarted themselves, if you see what I mean.

    CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2003 2003

  • And one of the things that came out of it was that--what we learned is that John Boehner outsmarted the strategists on the Democratic side.

    Let's Make a Deal 2011

  • How does it feel when you the ones [sic] who are outsmarted?

    Think Progress » Lieberman Gets A Chuckle Out Of Peddling Far-Right Nuke Myth 2010

  • How does it feel when you the ones who are outsmarted?

    Think Progress » Lieberman Gets A Chuckle Out Of Peddling Far-Right Nuke Myth 2010

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