outdo
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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
They conclude that it signals toughness—and vow to outdo him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
Each one tried to outdo the other, and they worked so hard and diligently at it that before long their cities rivaled even Wisdom in size and grandeur.
From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
Just when you think Timothée Chalamet can't surprise audiences anymore on his absurd "A Complete Unknown" press tour, he outdoes himself.
From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2025
"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
Her voice is a silky smooth dream and she outdoes herself vocally many times throughout the concert.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
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
Then your strength outdoes every man's; then you came by the sea, whence none know, speaking an unknown tongue; and then——' Giles paused.
From The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman
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
Sax outdid himself by also designing a trumpet with 13 bells; this instrument, later built by his son Adolphe-Édouard, resembles a brass Hydra.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
This year, Schmitt, a sitting senator, outdid them both.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025
The algae had a light sweetness that outdid in delight even the sap of our maple trees here in Canada.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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
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
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
She stops, and her expression reaches such a point of beauty that I nearly cry “You’ve outdone yourself, Ed.”
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
But the “Tron: Ares” soundtrack, composed under the moniker of Reznor and Ross’ band, Nine Inch Nails, achieves the unconventional feat of outdoing the movie instead of merely accompanying it.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2025
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
This was a wickedness far outdoing Snowball’s destruction of the windmill.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
