How to Use outsmart in a Sentence

outsmart

verb

• The government must gather large amounts of information in order to outsmart its enemies.
• Find out who outsmarts the rest by tuning in live tonight with a free trial of Fubo.
  — oregonlive, 8 May 2023
• That’s two points for House Kain (one for guessing in three, one for outsmarting the Bot).
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• 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 | [e-mail], al, 30 Dec. 2020
• 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
• It will not be outsmarted by antics or a bad fake accent.
  — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 18 Jan. 2018
• One of the most vilified pest species on the planet continues to outsmart the ways in which humans attempt to get rid of them.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 21 Dec. 2022
• But the capitalist mind remains the favorite to outsmart its rivals in the end.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2022
• In an attempt to outsmart the algorithm, the #BlackMugShot campaign was born.
  — Essence, 28 Jan. 2022
• This pet feeder has smart features to outsmart even the sneakiest furry friend.
  — Popular Science, 15 May 2020
• Sometimes, not every year, a runner comes along who can defy the course, or outsmart it, and who knows how to run downhill.
  — Roger Robinson, Outside Online, 11 Apr. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024