How to Use outfox in a Sentence

outfox

verb
  • Take what comes with an open heart but don’t try to outfox the markets.
    — Jeraldine Saunders, The Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2017
  • No doubt remained that I’d been outfoxed.
    — Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
  • But even foxes can outfox themselves by their own designs.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Bravo Platoon was standing firm in the north, but it had been outfoxed.
    — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 1 Jan. 1993
  • Around the world, more investors are starting to bet that dumb money can outfox smart money.
    — Shuli Ren | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 7 July 2019
  • Liv Morgan begged for a tag, but she was outfoxed by a blind tag from Rhea Ripley.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Japan, outfoxed by the stealthy maneuverer in the White House, had to recede.
    — Robert W. Merry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Mar. 2025
  • There’s no kick, in other words, in watching Renner outfox his opponents.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2018
  • Can’t outfox the foxes Parrots and corvids have reputations as the brainiacs of the bird world.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2023
  • But the desire to reclaim never-ending shelves of land, farther and farther into the sea, will inevitably be outfoxed by physics.
    — Samanth Subramanian, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2017
  • But with a war against the White Walkers coming, outfoxing her rivals yet again will be harder than ever.
    — Glamour, 12 Apr. 2019
  • The next step is outfoxing teams in the playoffs, where a defense will sit on all his favorite spots and anticipate his inevitable move back to his left hand.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Did Rhodes outfox the authorities by staying just inside legal bounds?
    — Hannah Allam, Spencer S. Hsu, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Her ability to outfox Prohibition enforcers may have been helped by her gender.
    — Karen Berkowitz, chicagotribune.com, 15 July 2019
  • This tiny store won’t The liquor store industry’s ability to outfox its opponents is about to be tested more than ever.
    — Robert King, Indianapolis Star, 20 Oct. 2017
  • But Mahrez zipped the ball off the greasy turf to beat the England stopper, totally outfoxing his opponent.
    — SI.com, 1 Oct. 2019
  • The only way to keep the advantage is to continue to outpace, outbuild, and outfox the competition.
    — Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2020
  • And more subtly, but just as critically, life is always in an endless race with itself, as pathogens co-evolve with their hosts, and predators figure out how to outfox their prey.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2010
  • More than any other rivals in the brutal streaming wars, the two giants maneuver constantly to outfox one another.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 15 July 2023
  • The book provides crucial instruction on the endless ways in which those bent on stealing secrets can outfox an agency’s protective measures.
    — WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The 2014 Spurs truly played a beautiful game, outfoxing a Heat dynasty on its last legs.
    — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The crucial question is whether AI detection will be able to outfox the AI that creates fake reviews.
    — Annie Probert, NBC News, 22 July 2023
  • Ultimately, the most challenging part of a campaign for Crimea may not be outfoxing Russia.
    — Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Foreign Affairs, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Fresh off getting outfoxed by the dumbest president in American history, Todd will bring his both sides-y brand to the debates.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 26 June 2019
  • No matter what else happens, there could be nothing more fascinating in Cincinnati sports than watching Votto attempt to outfox time.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Give us a psychological profile—and explain how and why Yamamoto outfoxed his opponent.
    — National Geographic, 4 Dec. 2016
  • Simon Yates outfoxed and outsprinted two other riders at the finish in Bagnères-de-Bigorre.
    — Washington Post, 18 July 2019
  • Yet his effort in trying to outfox his opponents with the quarterback situation was wasted energy, and his players grew tired of answering questions about it.
    — Marc Narducci, Philly.com, 3 Sep. 2017
  • Unable to merge with a competitor, the company instead innovated, outfoxed the bigger players, and succeeded wildly.
    — David Dayen, The New Republic, 30 Apr. 2018
  • But Reece outfoxed her colleagues, demanding a county sitting on a $61 million budget surplus at the time to follow through on giving the full property tax rollback.
    — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 10 Aug. 2023

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