outcompete
verb
out·com·pete
ˌau̇t-kəm-ˈpēt 
outcompeted; outcompeting
: to defeat, outdo, or displace by competing more effectively or aggressively
rival teams trying to outcompete one another
… one popular theory holds that dinosaurs outcompeted rival groups in their rise to world domination.—
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For example, perhaps the first evolutionary lineage to achieve one of these innovations quickly outcompeted other similar organisms from other lineages for resources.
—Daniel Brady Mills, The Conversation, 14 Feb. 2025
To reach super-intelligence first, America needs to outcompete and out-innovate China by accelerating innovation, enhancing market competition, and adopting new efficiencies —not by restricting access and building monopolies at home.
—Selina Xu, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2025
What To Know The influx of Chinese car imports has raised concerns in Russia—much like in the European Union over electric vehicles—that Chinese industrial overcapacity will result in its low-cost goods outcompeting local industries.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
Competition between Washington and its rivals over the future of the global order is intensifying, and now, much as in the early 1950s, the United States must take advantage of its world-class private sector and ample capacity for innovation to outcompete its adversaries.
—Anne Neuberger, Foreign Affairs, 15 Jan. 2025
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Daniel Brady Mills, The Conversation, 14 Feb. 2025
To reach super-intelligence first, America needs to outcompete and out-innovate China by accelerating innovation, enhancing market competition, and adopting new efficiencies —not by restricting access and building monopolies at home.
—Selina Xu, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2025
What To Know The influx of Chinese car imports has raised concerns in Russia—much like in the European Union over electric vehicles—that Chinese industrial overcapacity will result in its low-cost goods outcompeting local industries.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
Competition between Washington and its rivals over the future of the global order is intensifying, and now, much as in the early 1950s, the United States must take advantage of its world-class private sector and ample capacity for innovation to outcompete its adversaries.
—Anne Neuberger, Foreign Affairs, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Outcompete.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outcompete. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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