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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of outdance.

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Examples

  • Michael rose to the top, he outsang his cynics, he outdanced his doubters, he outperformed the pessimists.

    CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2009 2009

  • Despite his new duds, Mr. Piraux was outdanced by a U.S. competitor at a recent competition in Belgium.

    A Knight's Tale: 2008

  • I don't think she outdanced the competition in the last three weeks, but I think she grabbed our hearts and that got her through to the finale.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Mirtika 2006

  • I don't think she outdanced the competition in the last three weeks, but I think she grabbed our hearts and that got her through to the finale.

    MY FAVE WINS THE DANCING CROWN ON "SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE"! Mirtika 2006

  • Stile realized with misgiving that Red had outdanced him.

    Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981

  • Mae took to the poetry of motion as ducks take to water, and outdanced the singers.

    Mae Madden Mary Murdoch Mason

  • Madame knew what tears he had shed, what serenades he had played on his fiddle under 'Tite's window, and how he had outdanced her other partners.

    The Black Feather From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 Mary Hartwell Catherwood 1874

  • Steven McRae debuted in the ballet and outdanced both Lamb and Yanowsky, a considerable achievement considering their experience, skill and charisma.

    Evening Standard - Home Sarah Frater 2011

  • Steven McRae debuted in the ballet and outdanced both Lamb and Yanowsky, a considerable achievement considering their experience, skill and charisma.

    Evening Standard - Home Sarah Frater 2011

  • Vanessa Zahorian outdanced anything your reviewer has ever seen from her, and her partner Pascal Molat ran away with the whole evening, delivering a performance of such wit, energy, intelligence, I'd have to compare him to Louis Armstrong.

    unknown title 2009

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