Meanings
present singular third person outframes · participle present outframing · participle past outframed · past outframed
- transitiveTo frame better than another; exceed or surpass in framing.
The framers of the Constitution were being outframed by the president, and the Democrats in Congress felt helpless to stop it.
2009, George Lakoff, The Political Mind1 more example
For example, George Lakoff, a left-wing linguist at the University of California at Berkeley, thinks Democrats have lost many of the modern political battles because they are “outframed” by Republicans, who get their preferred [...]
2011, Robert Lane Greene, You Are What You Speak
Origin
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