outwork
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“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
With blood trickling from the away fighter's nose, Jonas countered smartly off the backfoot, using her superior skills to outwork and out-jab Wyatt.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2023
But his eyes always seem hopeful when he says that I can outwork talent over the long haul, and so for him—and for me too—I try my best to do just that.
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
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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
The crowd attempted to rouse McCann with a succession of "Molly" chants, but it was in vain as the Brazilian outworked her on the floor before securing a rear naked choke.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2025
“We just got outworked tonight,” Jazz coach Will Hardy said.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2024
LeBron James and Anthony Davis couldn’t prevent the Lakers from being outworked and outscored in the second half of a 130-112 loss to the Brooklyn Nets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 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 James Dabney McCabe
"We are talking a lot about moving the ball, being aggressive, outworking teams. Our players buy into that."
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2025
“Winning an Iowa caucus requires a strong combination of outworking and out-organizing the competition and that’s been the Ron DeSantis model.”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
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
Catie's share lay in the crafty outworking of the plan.
From The Brentons by Wilson C. Dexter
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
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