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outfighting

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present participle of outfight

as in outdistancing

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Many of these employees have been buying homes, often outdoing rival buyers by offering well above the asking price, real estate agents say.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026
View gallery - 3 images IBM has developed the blueprint for producing a processor using sub-1-nanometer (nm) chip technology, outdoing its own efforts to increase efficiency and processing power with 2-nm tech from a few years ago.

— Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 26 June 2026

Definition of outdoing

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For years, Putin has been ideologically committed to subjugating all of Ukraine, attacking and reattacking the country in order to control all of it.

— Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2026
The ruling was widely seen by progressives as subjugating the role of the individual in the election process to that of the corporation.

— Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of subjugating

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Despite near-daily barrages of Ukraine’s cities, power infrastructure, and industry, Russia is no closer to vanquishing the country more than four and a half years after its brutal invasion began.

— Justin Bronk, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2026
Every resurrection of his enemies is an opportunity to reexperience the joy of vanquishing them.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026

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Starting off strong with a stunning (and huge) 16-inch 2K touch-screen, this laptop is already transcending your traditional expectations.

— Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 8 Oct. 2026
While Mayor Mamdani’s statements on Israel have drawn much attention, a prior mayor’s tenure offers a powerful paradigm for transcending controversy to pursue mutually beneficial partnerships.

— Herbert Block, New York Daily News, 20 Sep. 2026

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Businesses remained the main source of research investment, with enterprise spending exceeding around $420 billion for the first time, accounting for more than 77% of the national total.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
He is also accused of exceeding his authority under Ohio law by failing to identify any statutory or constitutional source of legal authority for his order.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 16 Oct. 2026

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That would see her in the role into January 2029, surpassing Sarah Sanders’s time of almost two years in the job.

— Rob Crilly, The Washington Examiner, 13 Oct. 2026
That’s easily the most for any calendar year since AAA started tracking in 2000, surpassing the prior record of 158 in 2022 during the Biden administration, much of which was attributed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

— Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026

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For Spring/ Summer 2027, established ambassadors and global fandoms continued to drive social engagement, with Thai drama stars eclipsing K-pop idols for the first time to dominate the overall ranking.

— Amy Francombe, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2026
In getting out ahead of OpenAI, Zuckerberg is building on the momentum of Muse, which skyrocketed to the top of Apple's App Store, eclipsing ChatGPT.

— Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2026

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