outdo
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And the airlines have gone to great lengths to outdo each other, inking deals with high-end fashion and beauty retailers: Turkish Airlines and Lanvin, Delta and Missoni, Saudia and Elie Saab.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
However, even the Defense Department’s calisthenics-addled secretary has managed to outdo himself.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
"It's clear just how passionate Messi still is for football and you can tell it's in his DNA to always be a competitor, and to try and outdo himself more than anyone else," Giroud says.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
If anything, Jones felt trying to outdo that soundtrack would have been a losing battle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
And it’s like everybody’s trying to outdo everyone else.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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"Considering that Fernando, he has done a very good job, like he normally does. He is a little special in that respect and outdoes a little bit the potential of the cars."
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2024
And the plagiarism that these AI algorithms partake in is so subtle that it outdoes plagiarism in the ordinary sense: it takes other people’s work and synthesizes sources in ways typically untraceable.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 28, 2023
As this country's second-biggest weapons contractor, only Lockheed Martin outdoes it in annual defense revenues.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2023
But at nearly every turn, the GV70 subtly outdoes the RDX.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
And later in the summer he says, "My wife has become so clever at hawking that she quite outdoes me at this her favourite sport."
From Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 by Julia Mary Cartwright Ady
Test Score also rallied from behind but had a little smoother journey under Juan Hernandez and outdid the other closers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
He said at that time that a sandwich intended to compete with Popeye’s was in the works, with “a very large hand-breaded chicken breast” that he suggested outdid rival sandwiches in size.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
There’s stiff competition for that position, to be sure, but he outdid himself with this dissent.
From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2026
Adolf Hitler outdid Napoleon as history’s greatest art thief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
Louie outdid them all, regaining all the weight that he’d lost in New York, and then some.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
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Not to be outdone, Ohtani led off the fifth inning with a single, but the Dodgers failed to score.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
But not to be outdone by his opposite number, Jordan hit back for the hosts with a fine finish, dotting down in the corner despite Theo Attissogbe's last-ditch attempt to shove him into touch.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Mind you, this Scottish squad, led by Scott McTominay of Napoli, have outdone themselves to get this far.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
Not to be outdone, Claude chatbot and coding assistant maker Anthropic filed its confidential IPO plans with regulators Monday, setting up a likely $70 billion capital raising with a valuation approaching $1 trillion.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
She really had outdone herself, and she had never, she realized now, given herself the proper admiration that was her due.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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That’s not stopping some well-heeled tech companies from trying to keep outdoing each other in showing off higher-quality AI video generation at longer durations.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
That makes India a key market for planemakers, especially Airbus which has bagged the bulk of new orders, outdoing U.S. rival Boeing, and engine manufacturers whose wares will be put to test.
From Reuters ● Jun. 20, 2023
"We're always going to be outdoing ourselves," says Renée.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2023
But you can "destroy" a competitor by outdoing him; economists call that competition.
From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2020
But nothing compared to the cries that now emanated from the triplets, each outdoing the other.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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