outwit

Example Sentences

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She favors installing parental controls, even though wily children can outwit them, on grounds that some thwarting is better than none at all.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

But they are increasingly facing a crafty adversary: bacteria that mutate and adapt and outwit the very drugs designed to defeat them and cure the infections they cause.

From BBC • Dec. 4, 2024

Armed with their new knowledge, the team hopes to outwit bacteria by cutting off multiple pathways.

From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2024

They’ll need to outwit him, first and foremost, and they prove that they can.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2024

In confidence, the old man tells me that he gave all thirteen sons the same name to try to outwit the regime.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez