outrace
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He danced and juked, dodged and eluded tacklers, using his instincts to find open space that allowed him to use his speed to outrace the defense into the end zone.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
Betting on James is betting that he will continue to outrace the aging process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2023
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
This expressly decreed that nothing could outrace the speed of light and yet here were physicists insisting that, somehow, at the subatomic level, information could.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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
The Dutch distance workhorse got outraced to the line in a fight-to-the-finish 10,000 meters Saturday at world championships.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2022
He loped across the grass, easily outraced them all, and gobbled the ball up, sweeping it into his jaws with that huge tongue.
From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers
He began experimenting with a sewing machine and, in 1846, introduced a foot-powered model that could sew 250 stitches a minute, outracing the fastest human hands by a factor of five.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 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
And now down the hall came an old gray dog, wild with delight, outracing Polly Ann, who thought it was a play and leaped after him—Muffin had found his master!
From The Tin Soldier by Temple Bailey
