race

Example Sentences

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Just as Churchill Downs did for the Kentucky Derby and Laurel Park did two weeks later for the Preakness, Saratoga Race Course has scheduled 14 races Saturday, highlighted by the Belmont Stakes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

The tortuous effort to build that cable is the subject of James Tabor’s “Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Raphael Sonenshein, executive director of the Haynes Foundation and author of “Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles,” said sweeping generational changes are happening in L.A. politics.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

The Independent gave it the same score, calling Race Across the World "a wonderful source of escapism in uneasy times" and "the most wholesome show on TV".

From BBC • May 21, 2026

That’s when the Space Race began to escalate.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson