How to Use outsmart in a Sentence

outsmart

verb
  • The government must gather large amounts of information in order to outsmart its enemies.
  • Konkel now hopes her dogs learn tips to outsmart snakes.
    Bryce Alderton, Daily Pilot, 4 May 2017
  • Find out who outsmarts the rest by tuning in live tonight with a free trial of Fubo.
    oregonlive, 8 May 2023
  • Teams will race, run, eat, think and outsmart each other to the finish line.
    'sam' Boyer/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 1 June 2017
  • That’s two points for House Kain (one for guessing in three, one for outsmarting the Bot).
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • This is a game of pirate fun, gold coins, and outsmarting your friends.
    Jenny Williams, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2012
  • Your goal is to get five of these chips on the board, which isn’t easy when your partner is trying to outsmart you.
    Lindsay Tigar, CNN Underscored, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The Pogues still have more treasures to hunt and bad guys to outsmart all while clad in board shorts and bikinis, and a few brewskis deep.
    Mónica Marie Zorrilla, Variety, 7 Dec. 2021
  • So who will outsmart the competition and win the cash prize?
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2018
  • But in this past week’s battle with Pusha T, the 6 God appears to have been outsmarted for the first time.
    Billboard, 31 May 2018
  • Here are a few ways to outsmart one of the smartest game birds on the planet—the late-season rooster pheasant.
    Jarrod Spilger, Field & Stream, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Teams of four will compete, drive, run, eat, think and outsmart each other to the finish line.
    Sam Boyer, cleveland, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Doc is there trying to figure out how to outsmart the People Eater.
    Dalene Rovenstine, EW.com, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The agents must rely on their strengths to outsmart and outlast the Chronicoms.
    Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2020
  • The pitcher is trying to fool the hitter; the hitter is trying to outsmart the pitcher.
    Jeff Rowe, Star Tribune, 8 June 2021
  • With one move, Earn could have made Al a star, if only Clark hadn’t outsmarted him.
    Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 11 May 2018
  • The tree dated to the 79th Open, when a journeyman pro named Lon Hinkle came up with a way to outsmart the course during the first round.
    USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2020
  • As with so many young adult novels, the kids outsmart the adults by being receptive to new ideas.
    David James, Anchorage Daily News, 21 May 2022
  • And the scientist also has said the birds are outsmarting us.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Here’s hoping that in the galactic race, our AI systems will outsmart the aliens.
    Avi Loeb, Scientific American, 12 July 2021
  • Or will another player outsmart them both and climb their way to the top to secure the win instead?
    Ew Staff, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The show will see 30 players attempt to outsmart each other in a game of secrets for their share of $1 million.
    Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Luckily, a group of kids outsmarts the supernatural forces — with the help of a few adults, of course.
    Madeline Cisneros, EW.com, 5 May 2024
  • One of the quickest ways to outsmart the bugs for a little peace of mind is by investing in a pop-up mosquito tent.
    Jayla Andrulonis, Travel + Leisure, 23 Aug. 2021
  • He's already outsmarted him, and that can get us a peace deal that will certainly last a long, long time.
    Fox News, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Yes, robots have the potential to outsmart us and destroy the human race.
    Alex Williams, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2017
  • The characters have to rely on their wits to outsmart the firepower and social power of the men around them.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 26 Feb. 2018
  • If Putin outsmarts us on the battlefield and mounts a counter-offensive . . .
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The Suspects In each of his cases, Blanc has had to face off against a murderer's row of suspects, having to outsmart and outlast them to uncover the truth.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 30 May 2024
  • The translator also includes animal tales, in which the wolf is strong but stupid, the hare is cowardly, and the cunning fox easily outsmarts everybody.
    Maria Lipman, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2021

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