How to Use outfox in a Sentence

outfox

verb

• Take what comes with an open heart but don’t try to outfox the markets.
  — Jeraldine Saunders, The Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2017
• Bravo Platoon was standing firm in the north, but it had been outfoxed.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 1 Jan. 1993
• Around the world, more investors are starting to bet that dumb money can outfox smart money.
  — Shuli Ren | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 7 July 2019
• The competition was outfoxed on The Masked Singer finale.
  — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2019
• The guttersnipes have outfoxed the plutocrats, for once.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 3 Oct. 2019
• The crucial question is whether AI detection will be able to outfox the AI that creates fake reviews.
  — Annie Probert, NBC News, 22 July 2023
• The 2014 Spurs truly played a beautiful game, outfoxing a Heat dynasty on its last legs.
  — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 16 Sep. 2019
• Bill Belichick just might have done it again: found a way to outfox his opponents with another low-risk, high-reward move that the rest of the league was afraid to make.
  — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 29 June 2020
• But Mahrez zipped the ball off the greasy turf to beat the England stopper, totally outfoxing his opponent.
  — SI.com, 1 Oct. 2019
• Howard threw a long pass to Roberts, who outfoxed two Calvert Hall defenders to make the catch before turning and running the final yards into the end zone for the 73-yard touchdown.
  — Jeff Seidel, baltimoresun.com, 5 Oct. 2019
• But with a war against the White Walkers coming, outfoxing her rivals yet again will be harder than ever.
  — Glamour, 12 Apr. 2019
• But the desire to reclaim never-ending shelves of land, farther and farther into the sea, will inevitably be outfoxed by physics.
  — Samanth Subramanian, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2017
• Lampson had to stand on his head in the extra time periods of the match just to get Chicago to penalty kicks against FC Cincinnati – and then he still got outfoxed in penalties and lost in the end.
  — Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 30 June 2017
• The next step is outfoxing teams in the playoffs, where a defense will sit on all his favorite spots and anticipate his inevitable move back to his left hand.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• This tiny store won’t The liquor store industry’s ability to outfox its opponents is about to be tested more than ever.
  — Robert King, Indianapolis Star, 20 Oct. 2017
• The only way to keep the advantage is to continue to outpace, outbuild, and outfox the competition.
  — Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2020
• There’s no kick, in other words, in watching Renner outfox his opponents.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2018
• Fresh off getting outfoxed by the dumbest president in American history, Todd will bring his both sides-y brand to the debates.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 26 June 2019
• And more subtly, but just as critically, life is always in an endless race with itself, as pathogens co-evolve with their hosts, and predators figure out how to outfox their prey.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2010
• Simon Yates outfoxed and outsprinted two other riders at the finish in Bagnères-de-Bigorre.
  — Washington Post, 18 July 2019
• Did Rhodes outfox the authorities by staying just inside legal bounds?
  — Hannah Allam, Spencer S. Hsu, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2021
• The book provides crucial instruction on the endless ways in which those bent on stealing secrets can outfox an agency’s protective measures.
  — WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017
• Dove soap maker Unilever PLC, outfoxed by more nimble rivals, has decided to imitate smaller competitors rather than swim against the tide.
  — John D. Stoll, WSJ, 21 May 2018
• Her ability to outfox Prohibition enforcers may have been helped by her gender.
  — Karen Berkowitz, chicagotribune.com, 15 July 2019
• More than any other rivals in the brutal streaming wars, the two giants maneuver constantly to outfox one another.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 15 July 2023
• But Reece outfoxed her colleagues, demanding a county sitting on a $61 million budget surplus at the time to follow through on giving the full property tax rollback.
  — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 10 Aug. 2023
• No matter what else happens, there could be nothing more fascinating in Cincinnati sports than watching Votto attempt to outfox time.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 8 Aug. 2017
• Yet his effort in trying to outfox his opponents with the quarterback situation was wasted energy, and his players grew tired of answering questions about it.
  — Marc Narducci, Philly.com, 3 Sep. 2017
• Give us a psychological profile—and explain how and why Yamamoto outfoxed his opponent.
  — National Geographic, 4 Dec. 2016
• In American health care, profit is the primary motivation, the industry outfoxes every attempt to rein in costs, and consumers are the victims of predatory practices.
  — Laura Landro, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2017

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