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outrace

[out-reys] / 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

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

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

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

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

Giménez, the 22-year-old Feyenoord forward, dribbled past Harold Cummings and outraced Cummings and Fidel Escobar into the penalty area.

From Washington Times Jul. 16, 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

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

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

From Science Daily Oct. 3, 2023

This is about chasing a title while LeBron James still is outracing time.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2023

Their two bullets flew across the open fields, outracing the speed of sound.

From New York Times Sep. 24, 2022

We spur to a land of no name, outracing the storm wind; We leap to the infinite dark, like the sparks from the anvil.

From Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls by Margaret Bruce Clarke




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