outwork

“I’m trying to outwork the contract,” Snoop said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

“You’ve got to get in there and outwork them, outthink them, outperform them,” Dennis had told his son, “until there’s no doubt in anybody’s mind that you should be in there.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2024

I understood where my talents were, and I knew I was going to have to outwork people, I knew I was going to have to outsmart.

From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2023

Light on her feet, Scotney continued to outwork her opponent.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2023

If its attorneys do not outsmart you, they will outwork you, and if they can’t outwork you, they’ll win through sheer intimidation.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

When the buzzer mercifully sounded, the box score made no bones about the fact the Trojans had been outworked and outclassed in almost every facet of the game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 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

As a candidate in Iowa, Mr. Trump was often conspicuously outworked by his competitors.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

It is said that if he disliked a fellow pressman and wished to be rid of him, he merely put forth his immense strength and outworked him.

From Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by McCabe, James Dabney

"We are talking a lot about moving the ball, being aggressive, outworking teams. Our players buy into that."

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2025

Dunford, asked about the barriers that Gen. Stewart faced, said that his friend and colleague “knew it might be harder for him than others,” and believed that he could overcome obstacles by outworking others.

From Washington Post ● May 1, 2023

So, on a Tuesday night when the increasingly undermanned St. Louis Blues actually showed up for work, the Kraken secured a badly needed victory, 5-3, by outworking them at key moments.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2023

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

I outlined an ambition, but its outworking was a problem.

From My Lady of the Chimney Corner by Irvine, Alexander

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 Putnam, Allen

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 Tuttle, Hudson

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 Putnam, Allen