Word: outwit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Others would try to outlast it, or at least outwit it, through cryonics, say (though it may be no coincidence that their most famous example is said to be Walt Disney). And others talk blithely of Dr. Kevorkian or 100,000 dead in Hiroshima, as if to avoid its more immediate implications for us. But the fact remains: this article will someday be posthumous. That face I touch will, in the not too distant future, be out of reach. Tibetan Buddhists meditate upon images of dancing skulls, and ancient Egyptians, during feasts, had skeletons brought to their tables...
...There is a point at which even the wily HIV virus can change itself (mutate) in an attempt to outwit even three drugs," the team said in a statement released yesterday...
...tried to keep the everyman, who was ambitious and wanted to conquer the world and had the American dream handed to him and finds out that it's rotten inside, then has to find a way to outwit both the lawmakers and the lawbreakers," he said
...think someone's in the house," the nine-year-old boy was saying in a shaky, squeaky voice on the telephone. "I'm hiding under the bed right now. I've got pillows piled all around." The boy under the bed is no Macaulay Culkin ready to outwit buffoonish burglars. His fear is real, and he is addressing it in a very '90s way: dialing a telephone hot line...
...Carelli bring a pistol to the interview? There's a lot of grotesque sex (Disgusting! Tell us more!) unveiled in the courtroom. As is customary in lawyer novels, Paget has a pretty female assistant for love interest and a frigid witch of a female prosecutor to outwit. Microwave popcorn (Newman's Own, unflavored, add salt and real butter) is recommended with this...