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outrace

[aut-rays] / ˌaʊtˈreɪs /


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The National Trust said earlier this month that the administration was "working around the clock in an attempt to outrace judicial review."

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

Cornell researchers combined soft microactuators with high-energy-density chemical fuel to create an insect-scale quadrupedal robot that is powered by combustion and can outrace, outlift, outflex and outleap its electric-driven competitors.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2023

They'll leave parties early, desperate to outrace the clock and get a kid to their own bed in time.

From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2023

“Top Gun: Maverick” is hoping to show that, when done well, big Bruckheimer-styled blockbusters can still outrace anything else in theaters, or at home.

From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2022

I’ve got to get ahead of Jay, outrace the current.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

With just over six minutes left, Chambliss took a snap, sprinted left and outraced an LSU cornerback on a 14-yard dash to the corner of the end zone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

Out-qualified and outraced by team-mate Ocon during a painful weekend for Haas.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

Vaughn dove, gloved the ball and narrowly outraced Bauers to the bag to preserve a 2-0 Chicago lead.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 8, 2023

When Morata outraced defender Niklas Süle and ticked it up and in just inside the left post, Germany looked somewhere close to hopeless.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2022

Swift as a deer he outraced them, Quiet as a fox he ran, He thumbed his nose as they blundered, He laughed to beat the band.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

Put it this way: At least seven James Bond movies feature 007 outracing baddies on the slopes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

Or Lempicka, in her imagined Bugatti, might still be outracing us.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2024

But in certain situations -- outracing or outmaneuvering a predator, for example -- the ratios of those periods change drastically.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2023

While outracing furious Titans defenders, Herbert connected on an impossible laser down the right sidelined to a leaping Williams for 35 yards to set up the field goal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2022

Wildfire was outracing wind and fire, and he was overhauling the most noted racer of the uplands against a tremendous handicap.

From Wildfire by Zane Grey


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