rat race
Example Sentences
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China’s industrial rat race helped power the country’s economic miracle.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026
Yet the pressures - the ones that are pushing more Chinese youth to quit the rat race, "lie flat" and take their frustrations out online - remain.
From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025
Imagine this: After years of toiling in the Southern California rat race, you buy a parcel of land in the high desert.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2025
For this Money Talks, it’s time to turn the rat race into a rat walk on the beach.
From Slate • Oct. 1, 2024
That was the whole point of the community—to allow us to escape the money-hungry rat race of modern society.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
