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outfought

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past tense of outfight

as in outdistanced

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Perennial champ Joey Chestnut far outdistanced the field with 66 dogs officially consumed.

— Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 4 July 2026
The Lancers outdistanced runner-up Classical Academy (367) and Los Alamitos (372), both of which also qualified for state.

— Dan Albano, Oc Register, 29 May 2026

Definition of outdistanced

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Only the 27 productions running during the week ending August 16, only Hamilton‘s box office outdid Ragtime, with the former taking in $2,123,135.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2026
Last December, Berman outdid himself, landing $867 million in financing from a group of lenders that include Apollo Global and JPMorgan Chase to convert a 1960s-era office building at 111 Wall Street.

— Andrew Rice, Curbed, 23 July 2026

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The average two-bedroom rent in the city has now surpassed New York City, traditionally the nation’s most expensive city for rents.

— Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
The government has spent nearly all of its full-year allocation for fuel subsidies already, after oil prices surpassed the $85 benchmark that the estimate was based on.

— Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of surpassed

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In recent years, there were delays and interruptions because of weather, but not full days getting vanquished.

— Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026
Even as retailers pointedly asked Edelman what the company planned to do once the mechanical trade was vanquished by quartz technology, Stern stayed the course.

— Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 27 July 2026

Definition of vanquished

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With a length of almost 1,100 feet and displacing more than 100,000 tons, Nimitz-class carriers are among the world’s largest warships, eclipsed only by the US Navy’s Ford-class carriers, of which only one is in service to date.

— Mustafa Qadri, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
From the perspective of our health systems, this work is nice-to-have but eclipsed by the gritty realities of clinical care.

— Kyle Vanelli, STAT, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of eclipsed

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On his 2017 tax return, Krneta reported $321,000 in net income, even though his total income, which included about $4,000 derived from criminal activity, exceeded $400,000, the plea stated.

— Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026
Soil samples from the two elementary school campuses, City Terrace and Christopher Dena, exceeded the applicable regulatory screening levels of lead, which were flagged for further evaluation.

— Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of exceeded

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The moment the number of pages outstripped the number of people who could reasonably classify them, the future belonged to crawlers and ranking systems.

— Alan Bradley, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026
That overwhelming demand for data center buildouts has vastly outstripped the industry’s ability to supply it.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026

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