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outwork

[aut-wurk, aut-wurk] / ˌaʊtˈwɜrk, ˈaʊtˌwɜrk /


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“She may be being outspent — Democrats are being outspent in most places, and Black women are always outspent. What she has said is people can’t outwork her.”

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

“I’m trying to outwork the people. I’m trying to outwork me.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

I think he will outwork Eubank and might stop him, but I am edging towards a Benn victory on points in an absolute thriller.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025

At 64, he could outwork any reporter half his age.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2024

My father says, “Just do your best. Remember—it’s a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end.”

From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick

Some trained engineers looked down on him, but "he really outworked everybody," Diamos says.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

One reason for his primary win is that he simply outworked Stevens, visiting over 110 cities, according to his campaign, holding over 500 public events and, in the process, building a genuine movement.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

"I felt our fitness as well in the second half, we outworked the defence and that created chances for us."

From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2024

“We just got outworked tonight,” Jazz coach Will Hardy said.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2024

Griffith, the father of motion pictures, used to say there were only two people who outworked him — Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish.

From 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s by Max Millard

It is the local outworking of two schemes which apply in Great Britain, which has a separately regulated electricity market.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

She crisscrossed the district, outworking her opponent and reminding voters of her bipartisan record.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2022

He said that was the secret to Mr. Seper’s success: “It’s not smoke and mirrors and tricks, it’s outworking other people.”

From Washington Times ● Oct. 25, 2022

"We’ve got to bear down on our clears, on our entries, and back to outworking PPs that are out there."

From Fox News ● Mar. 30, 2022

Not that he deliberately sat down with himself and in formal manner resolved that he would become a colonizer, but the natural outworking of his genius resulted that way.

From The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem by Henry Ford

Great changes and advances of either a material, mental, political, social, or spiritual world are, like births, generally outwrought through anguish and sufferings.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam

Our position, fortified by the facts and reasonings in the preceding pages, is, that spirits—departed human beings—generated and outwrought Salem witchcraft.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam

But man feels the aspirations for a superior life, a soaring out of and above the physical senses; he feels the promptings of duty, of right, of justice and truth, outwrought from his innermost being.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle


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