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racer

[ray-ser] / ˈreɪ sər /
NOUN
competitor in a race
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The show is returning with 15 celebrities competing for the glitterball trophy, including Australian singer Delta Goodrem, former England footballer Shaun Wright-Phillips, actresses Lacey Turner and Jaime Winstone and Team GB skeleton racer Tabby Stoecker.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

"I don't know if we'll ever drive IndyCars around the nation's capital again, so the fact we're doing it is a spectacle," US racer Josef Newgarden said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

The film introduces us to Ricky Bobby’s family with a gross-out splat, implying the soon-to-be stock car racer was born in the back of a speeding Chevelle driven by his reprobate father.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

Vela was also co-founded by François Gabart, a professional yacht racer that Fernandez-Ferri called “the Michael Jordan of sailing.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

A bicycle racer who went on long solo training rides in the mornings before school.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

"I wanted to support the racers heading off... I think it's tremendous of him to put himself through this. It's incredible."

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

The inaugural marathon under Burke’s stewardship took place in 1986, and 11,000 racers toed the starting line, nearly half the size of the long-running and world-famous New York City Marathon that same year.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026

I couldn’t believe the volume of sugary carbs the racers were taking on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

We were champion racers, and my parents invested heavily in the cars—to the point that they didn’t fully furnish our living room.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

He had nothing in common with the stray dogs in the street, much less with the thoroughbred racers that assorted families of the aristocracy were raising.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende


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