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1858 H. Bushnell Serm. for New Life ix. 176 The child brought up a thief gets an infinite power of cunning..and loses out just as much in the power of true perception.

1904 Charlotte Observer 4 Oct. 4 News comes from New York that Editor Hearst may lose out in his race for renomination as Congressman.

1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny iv. 66 I know you've lost out some by not having me to typewrite 'em.

1911 R. D. Saunders Col. Todhunter vii. 101 That's right where you're going to lose out, Tim.

1913 E. D. Biggers Seven Keys to Baldpate xiii. 165 But it's over, and you've lost out.

1929 Randolph (W. Va.) Enterprise 14 Mar. 4/1 Elkins rather lost out in the new deal down at Charleston.

1930 C. S. Johnson Negro in Amer. Civilization (1931) xxvi. 396 Is it not true that the Negro female is losing out in personal service? So often newspapers are specifying white in their want ads.

1942 E. Paul Narrow Street xvii. 133 Daladier made a bid for the premiership and lost out because Briand would not play ball with him.

1947 ‘G. Orwell’ Eng. People 38 The American tendency is to burden every verb with a preposition that adds nothing to its meaning (win out, lose out, face up to, etc.).

1959 Encounter Sept. 16/1 It will probably lose out in the competition.

1963 S. Douglas Years of Combat x. 251 Tracers might come whistling past one's ears, indicating all too clearly that the enemy..was on the attack. If that happened it meant that we had lost out in the preliminary tactical manoeuvrings.

1966 Listener 10 Mar. 337/2 It could be that both China and America are losing out to the Russians.

1971 Guardian 23 July 5/2 We are going to lose out unless the Government are prepared to do a tremendous public relations job for the tourist industry here.

1972 Newsweek 10 July 15/2 Rep. Bella Abzug..lost out in her bid for a second term in Congress.

1973 Times 30 June 13/6 The monstrous proliferation of redundant prepositions in the ever more popular usages ‘check up on’, ‘lose out to’, ‘meet up with’.