outdone
Example Sentences
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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
Not wanting to be outdone by the other, Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe, Harry Kane and Erling Haaland all came out of the blocks firing in their respective nations' opening fixtures.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
When a superhero satire’s guesses about how bad life could get are outdone by reality, then the fiction has lost its escapist function.
From Salon ● May 24, 2026
Not to be outdone, Mayor Brandon Johnson gave a master class in deflection when asked if he would apologize to Gorman’s parents for her death.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
Purple was used by Japanese diplomats, which meant it carried the very highest-grade secrets.To protect those secrets, Japan's coding chiefs had outdone themselves.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
