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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
outsmart .
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Examples
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Rather than outfight the troll, for example, Mirka outsmarts it -- a traditional idea in Jewish stories about using brains rather than brawn.
Unlikely Jewish Heroine Hailed As 'Pure Enchantment' Josh Fleet 2011
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And in her spare time, she fights trolls and a monster pig, outsmarts a witch and dreams of being a dragon slayer.
Unlikely Jewish Heroine Hailed As 'Pure Enchantment' Josh Fleet 2011
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Selected by my husband, an engineer who gets free upgrades and knows how to use them, this device easily outsmarts me.
Holly Robinson: Staying Whole in a Fractured World Holly Robinson 2011
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Rather than outfight the troll, for example, Mirka outsmarts it -- a traditional idea in Jewish stories about using brains rather than brawn.
Unlikely Jewish Heroine Hailed As 'Pure Enchantment' Josh Fleet 2011
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"My kind of princess escapes the tower, outsmarts the dragon and finds the treasure."
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Selected by my husband, an engineer who gets free upgrades and knows how to use them, this device easily outsmarts me.
Holly Robinson: Staying Whole in a Fractured World Holly Robinson 2011
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In the opening alone, we get a postwar-trauma fantasy, a drunken mother, a nurse who outsmarts a doctor to save a man's life, and two ingrates who deride the nurse for being a nurse.
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It's a Spanish folk tale about a quick-witted lamb who outsmarts a hungry coyote.
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It's a Spanish folk tale about a quick-witted lamb who outsmarts a hungry coyote.
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"My kind of princess escapes the tower, outsmarts the dragon and finds the treasure."
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