outwit

Example Sentences

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She eventually learned to outwit the censors by using the term “pirate ship.”

From New York Times

Early cancer vaccine research faltered as cancer outwitted and outlasted patients’ weak immune systems, said Olja Finn, a vaccine researcher at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

From Washington Times

The Pentagon sees at least one of the emerging weapons as potentially threatening, in part because it could, if perfected, outwit the United States’ antimissile defenses.

From New York Times

The maneuver, which Disney has defended as entirely legal and done in “open, noticed public forums,” enraged the governor’s appointees and generated humiliating media coverage for him: Mr. DeSantis, outwitted by a mouse.

From New York Times

“This is a good example of how North Korea is able to outwit the sanctions regime using overseas facilitators,” said Boling.

From Washington Post