Examples of outsmart in a Sentence
The government must gather large amounts of information in order to outsmart its enemies.
an inexpensive security system that would likely be outsmarted by anyone with a serious interest in circumventing it
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In research released Monday, Amazon scientists Gaurav Gupta and Vatshank Chaturvedi document in careful technical detail why AI agents have a persistent tendency to outsmart themselves—and why fixing the problem requires rethinking the entire layer of software between the model and its tools.
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Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 June 2026
However, all this ends up swept under the rug in favor of trying to outsmart the viewer, leaving little by way of coherent narrative evolution; neither of the aforementioned threads is ever followed up on.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 8 June 2026
The Wachowskis’ debut film stars Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly as extremely hot lesbians who fall in love and outsmart the mob.
—Caroline Framke, Vulture, 8 June 2026
And some of the bees that technically failed the test may have actually outsmarted their contemporaries—by learning to work smarter, not harder.
—Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 4 June 2026
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Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 June 2026
However, all this ends up swept under the rug in favor of trying to outsmart the viewer, leaving little by way of coherent narrative evolution; neither of the aforementioned threads is ever followed up on.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 8 June 2026
The Wachowskis’ debut film stars Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly as extremely hot lesbians who fall in love and outsmart the mob.
—Caroline Framke, Vulture, 8 June 2026
And some of the bees that technically failed the test may have actually outsmarted their contemporaries—by learning to work smarter, not harder.
—Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 4 June 2026
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“Outsmart.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outsmart. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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outsmart
verb
out·smart
(ˈ)au̇t-ˈsmärt 
: outwit
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