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He worked very hard as he did not want to be outdone by anyone.
The actuality is continually outdoing our own talents, and the culture tosses up figures almost daily that are the envy of any novelist.
They outdid themselves in their kindness to one another and in their demonstrations of goodwill and charity towards the residents.
To this aim, they were obliged to enhance further and further the deflection effect of their policy in order to outdo their rivals.
The studio audience murmurs that no one can outdo such a prodigy of memory.
The principal meaning of "emulation" in the period was not just imitation but rather rivalry, an effort to outdo the model imitated.
He had worked for so many nineteenth-century showmen that he was able to outdo them all.
As western modernisation spreads there is a reaction which attempts to outdo the west in its own terms, with the kind of partial convergence this implies.
Before the entourage crossed the street the men expanded their chests and let out a series of war cries and whoops, trying to outdo one another.