outwork
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“I’m trying to outwork the people. I’m trying to outwork me.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
“She runs harder and runs faster than her opponents. Nobody’s going to outwork her.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2024
“At the time I was just trying to outwork everybody.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 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
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
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
Through the game’s first 15 minutes, the Trojans were outhustled and outworked on the glass as the Roadrunners drew fouls, forced turnovers and racked up seven early offensive rebounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
“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
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
The Burton-upon-Trent fighter began well, doubling up on his jabs and outworking Wach in the opening rounds.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2023
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
The Hawks then found their long-distance shot and began outworking the Bulls under the basket.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 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
