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win out

verb

  1. informal.
    intr, adverb to succeed or prevail as if in a contest

    sanity rarely wins out over prejudice

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

Succeed, prevail, as in She was sure she'd win out if she persisted . [Late 1800s]
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Example Sentences

Good technology tends to win out over time, despite all the attempts by the old guard to stifle it.

Regardless of how terrifying and real the world around them becomes, they tend to win out with sheer enthusiasm.

Researchers have debated for several years which factor will win out.

And so comes the odd question of which camp should win out—the Jokers or the Batmen?

In the end, the truth will win out, because you can't turn a matter of science into a political debate.

We have a nice crop this year, however, more than the total yield up to this season, and perhaps from now on we may win out.

A steady climb with unflagging zeal and singleness of purpose always win out.

"I betche he don't win out," Happy Jack insisted with characteristic gloom.

He had strength a-plenty, but it needed all of it, and more, to win out of the river's hungry clutch.

To test me, because she is jealous of you; or to ensnare me because she wants to win out diplomatically—or both, it may be.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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