How to Use outcoach in a Sentence

outcoach

verb
  • The team played hard and the KC staff outcoached the Chargers.
    — Terez A. Paylor, kansascity, 16 Dec. 2017
  • This was a whitewash in a medium game, the Buckeyes outcoached from start to finish.
    — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland.com, 4 Nov. 2017
  • Pagano has bigger issues than being outcoached in a single game, though that will happen Sunday.
    — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Arians will outcoach him because Arians is a much better coach.
    — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 14 Sep. 2017
  • This wasn’t a garden-variety first-round loss, but a thorough defeat in which the Blazers were outcoached and outplayed.
    — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Kitchens was outcoached in his debut by Vrabel, the Akron native and former Ohio State star.
    — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com, 8 Sep. 2019
  • That was an embarrassment for an Oregon team that was outclassed, outplayed, out-recruited and outcoached.
    — Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 5 Nov. 2017
  • Maye’s play is already at fan fiction levels this early in his career, and Vrabel’s staff continues to outcoach opponents late in games.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
  • But Michigan's safeties were exposed with their coverage and the Wolverines' defensive staff was outcoached and out-schemed too often.
    — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Coach Bruce Boudreau will again be under the playoff spotlight after being outcoached in the Ducks’ last postseason ventures.
    — Helene Elliott, latimes.com, 10 Apr. 2017
  • After getting outcoached by Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio.
    — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 8 Oct. 2017
  • Outdrafted and outcoached in many instances, the Chargers earned only one playoff berth in the seven years despite Rivers’ constant availability.
    — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Apr. 2017
  • By outcoaching Bill Belichick, Pederson put himself in that category.
    — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 5 Feb. 2018

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