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To outwit
verb
To get the better of; to outsmart, to beat in a competition of wits.
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To outwit border guards who were not so obliging, some East Berliners devised ingenious stratagems.
Will they manage to outwit the angels?
Kieran, alas, failed to outwit the machine.
So he continually tried to outwit Scioscia.
We need new drugs to outwit the disease.
Sometimes I would try to outwit the cold caller.
But criminals trying to outwit forensic science is scarcely new.
More troubling still, Moffat's Adler blatantly fails to outwit Holmes.
2) Sticking coins in your mouth to outwit the breathalyser?
"I've never known anyone to outwit him, either verbally or photographically".
Encourage the good to outwit the bad and, with luck, you keep Nemesis at bay.
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