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Word: outwitted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that challenge, perhaps now Brown has earned the skill to outwit, outlast and out survive...

Author: By Sarah A. Dolgonos and Sumi A. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: People in the News | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

...Whatever you call it, the movie is a touching, irrepressibly funny fable of an elfin café waitress who surreptitiously arranges fortuitous developments in the lives of people she knows. After circumstances deny her influence over her own destiny early in life, Amélie decides to outwit fate by manipulating events to fulfill the hopes and desires of others. Populating that plot is an array of stock characters from classic French cinema, updated with comically magnified conditions, obsessions and idiosyncrasies. Amélie's jilted concierge tipples port in the presence of a pet dog preserved by taxidermy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Absolutely Fabulous | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...sport where size doesn't necessarily equate to success, Karlen is using every inch of his frame to cover the court and every inch of his brain to outwit opponents. In front of an overflow crowd at Barnaby Courts this past Saturday, Karlen kept Trinity's Ragontse off balance with a mixture of power and finesse...

Author: By Jared R. Small, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Athlete of the Week | 2/6/2001 | See Source »

...city on an island far away in the South China Sea. With the hubris of Oedipus, the resilience of Odysseus, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the flamboyance of Liberace and the physique of Santa Claus, this Newport native and self-proclaimed "fat, naked fag" managed to outwit, outplay and outlast in life's ultimate challenge. His name: Richard Hatch. The game: Survivor. The official companion book: terrible...

Author: By By CHRISTOPHER Blazejewski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Closing the Book on 'Survivor' | 9/22/2000 | See Source »

...first of these shows, "Survivor," is currently in production and slated to begin airing on a weekly basis starting Wednesday, May 31. Jeff Probst, of VH-1's "Rock & Roll Jeopardy," will serve as the host of this island odyssey, whose motto is "Outwit, Outplay, Outlast." In mid-March, sixteen castaways (eight men, eight women) were dropped on an uninhabited island in the South China Sea. They must build their own shelter and gather their own food. They are allowed only one "non-survivor tool" from home, like a picture or a hairbrush, but nothing else. They will have...

Author: By Andrew P. Nikonchuck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lord of the Ratings | 4/21/2000 | See Source »

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