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outcompeted

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past tense of outcompete

as in defeated

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Samuel, or Samuil in Bulgarian, was a warrior emperor who battled the Byzantine Empire to expand his kingdom but was ultimately defeated and died shortly afterward in 1014.

— COSTAS KANTOURIS, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
The 1995 Jayhawks went 10-2 and defeated UCLA 51-30 in the bowl game.

— Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2026

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In a single generation, energy drinks have conquered the beverage world.

— Kent Sepkowitz, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
The title hints that the film will follow Aegon the Conqueror, who, along with his sister-wives Visenya and Rhaenys, invaded Westeros and conquered most of the Seven Kingdoms with the help of their dragons, Balerion, Vhagar and Meraxes.

— Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026

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That spending is routed carefully, and Gopalkrishnan said the bank is model-agnostic.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
In production architecture, verification and validation loops have to be placed around every point where AI works, and any field that shows a confidence score below a set threshold has to be routed automatically to human review.

— Pranit Banthia, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026

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Tyrell Henry caught 14 passes to set a Wisconsin single-game record and Colton Joseph threw for 362 yards and accounted for four touchdowns as the Badgers trounced Eastern Michigan 54-10 on Saturday.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026
Shares of the drone manufacturer jumped 10% after first-quarter results trounced estimates.

— Michelle Fox,Darla Mercado, CFP®, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026

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That team held a players-only meeting after falling to 0-3… then got clobbered, 27-0, by the Houston Oilers in Week 4.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026
Then Beamer and his boys went on the road and got clobbered by Alabama to the tune of a 49-18 beatdown.

— Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026

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The Equal Weight's annual performance hasn't bested the regular S & P since 2022, which also marked the start of the generative AI boom that later gave rise to the Mag 7.

— Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026
Oregon coach Dan Lanning has bested Riley in both of their head-to-head meetings, too.

— Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026

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