What's the difference between outfox and outsmart?

Outfox


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  • (1) I had to adapt to her game and was finally able to get some rhythm going towards the end of the second set.” Mattek-Sands has never gone past the fourth round of a grand slam but she has enjoyed success in doubles, winning both the Australian and French Open titles this year, and she outfoxed Williams early on with her touch and craft.
  • (2) In truth, however, Marriner's 13th dismissal – that of Ryan Shawcross for twice being outfoxed by more nimble-footed opponents either side of the interval – merely galvanized Stoke.
  • (3) If El Chapo felt any exhilaration that he had done it again, outfoxed them all and slipped the net, reality quickly robbed him of that fantasy: black-uniformed federal police intercepted the outlaws.
  • (4) Pacquiao, at 35, outworked and outfoxed a younger champion widely regarded as among the top five pound-for-pound fighters in the world.
  • (5) Outfoxed on technology, the junta responds during times of stress by simply unplugging the internet, especially to stop unwelcome news getting out of the country.
  • (6) Wily David Carney chalked one up for the nay-saying ageists by outfoxing youngster Thomas Deng to execute a superb run and finish, one which was harder than it may have seemed.
  • (7) Soldado once again showed that ice runs through his veins, his stutter-step and finish outfoxing Michel Vorm, as it had done Julián Speroni of Crystal Palace in the previous weekend's 1-0 win.
  • (8) But US politicians, diplomats and analysts warn that after years of mostly outfoxing his foreign backers when the Afghan war was a top policy priority, Karzai may have severely miscalculated the mood in an economically strained US, and a White House distracted by other international crises from Syria to China.
  • (9) People hold on to outdated technology for any number of reasons, from sentimental through aesthetic or financial to a determination to outfox the future by showing that the old stuff still works.
  • (10) Or was it really some new form of war – one that could outfox Russia’s enemies without firing a shot?
  • (11) Shortly after Greece’s new leftist government struck a deal with creditors to extend the country’s bailout to the end of next month, the finance minister and glamour boy for the Syriza radicals waxed triumphalist about how he had outfoxed the eurozone.
  • (12) So, the only goal – after Adebayor outfoxed Glenn Whelan to get to the byline and stood up the cross for the onrushing Rose to power home – was greeted by jeers.
  • (13) Yet Liverpool played as though filled with adrenaline and, again, Rodgers had assembled his team in a way to outfox one of their key rivals.
  • (14) It’s the economies that tank and bomb that can’t support the health service that I think we all need.” Best audience line: In response to the prime minister’s polite “I don’t agree with you, sir,” the blunt answer: “Well you’re wrong.” Gaby Hinsliff Facebook Twitter Pinterest The British public outfox David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg during the BBC’s Question Time Election Leaders Special on Thursday Ed Miliband: too little too late One week to go, the polls turning the wrong way – this was the moment when Ed Miliband had to haul the waverers back into line.
  • (15) Outfoxed, out of luck and abandoned as never before, he looked tired and downcast.
  • (16) We were in dialogue with the theater before Tribeca, trying to book [the Angelika] for June,” said Beth Portello, a spokeswoman for Cinema Libre Studio, a small film distributor whose most recognizable hit was Outfoxed, a documentary about the Fox News empire.
  • (17) Bastian Schweinsteiger was outfoxed by Xavi Hernández a couple of times in the opening moments but continued to close him down energetically.

Outsmart


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  • (1) "Virgin Trains has not been liked by the DfT because the department holds the view that it has been outsmarted and outgunned in commercial negotiations in previous years.
  • (2) "If you want to get on, certainly in tabloid journalism, then you have to outsmart the criminals and outsmart all these lawyers who are in it for the money.
  • (3) For more than a month, Russians around the country have been buying up candles and matches, salt and torches in an effort to outsmart the apocalypse some believe will come when the Mayan calendar runs out on Friday .
  • (4) Luckily for the viewer, if not for Breslin, he's not so easily outsmarted.
  • (5) In the process, he must figure out how to outsmart his captor and escape.
  • (6) There are no easy games in this competition.” South Africa’s Fourie du Preez, who plays his club rugby in Japan, described the result as the low point of his career and said the Springboks had been outsmarted.
  • (7) The reflex reaction to an act of mass terror was not to outsmart, out-think and marginalise the new enemy – it was to get even by being even more violent, lawless and vicious, leading Nato into the Afghan quagmire, and the coalition in Iraq.
  • (8) Murdoch, who knows how to outsmart his enemies, moved to gain control of events by saying he would withdraw his undertaking to spin off Sky News 30 minutes before Hunt spoke.
  • (9) There’s another Gypsy world champion.” Billy Joe Saunders outsmarts Andy Lee to win WBO middleweight title Read more He had just dethroned his fellow Traveller Andy Lee over 12 tense rounds, decking him twice in the third, but he was aware, too, that the media have been hunting down every squeak and indiscretion of the first member of their community to win a world heavyweight title, Tyson Fury.
  • (10) "Not even a big agent like Jorge Mendes can outsmart me," Zahovic told DNvevnik.
  • (11) It wasn't that I was being outsmarted necessarily, but I just felt different.
  • (12) Sherlock outsmarted the competition with almost 8 million viewers tuning into watch the climax of the super sleuth's battle against arch nemesis Moriarty in the final episode on Sunday night.
  • (13) Yet the teetotaller, a traditional Zulu with four wives and 21 children, has outsmarted and outmanoeuvred every political rival to retain an iron grip on the governing party.
  • (14) The studios are normally in the running; but they've been outsmarted in the recent past."
  • (15) They just outsmarted us.” The Springbok captain, Jean de Villiers, told the BBC that South Africa could still bounce back.
  • (16) "I feel sorry for him, the other parties outsmarted him," Narayan said.
  • (17) Interview Part two: On Lionel Messi, Teddy Sheringham and outsmarting defenders Guardian US sports has live minute-by-minute coverage of all MLS playoff games, including the second leg of LA Galaxy vs Real Salt Lake
  • (18) Even when Lawson became chancellor and Peter Walker succeeded him at energy, Lawson still played a crucial role in trying to outsmart Rooke.
  • (19) But it is still being outsmarted by Aldi, Lidl and domestic chains such as Musgrave’s SuperValu.
  • (20) A ll but lost in the excitement of Everton not only winning at Manchester United for the first time in more than 20 years but having a left-back in the opposition penalty area in the 86th minute looking to score a goal was the consideration that Roberto Martínez outsmarted David Moyes in the transfer window as well as on the Old Trafford pitch.

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