out-argue

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out-argue (third-person singular simple present out-argues, present participle out-arguing, simple past and past participle out-argued)

  1. Alternative form of outargue
    • 2009, Richard Warren Strong, The Legacy of Moondyne Joe, page 22:
      You have to out-drink, out-boast, out-fight, out-argue the horde of people who float around the pub (The Royal George, Lorenzini's bistro, etc. for downtown Sydney; the Sydney University Union café for “uptown”).
    • 2010, David Wootton, Galileo: Watcher of the Skies:
      Galileo was very good in debate: he could, his admirers believed and his opponents acknowledged, out-argue anyone.
    • 2012, Deirdre McKay, Global Filipinos: Migrants' Lives in the Virtual Village, page 18:
      They may try to out-argue and out-evidence those who would dispossess them, but they need money to do so.

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