outrace
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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
At the urging of Frances’s mother, who was fearful that they would be captured with such a defiant marionette as they tried to outrace the Nazis, they buried the puppet in their backyard.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2022
“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
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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
Ford cut back across the field from the 20 and outraced his defender to the end zone to make it 7-7 early in the second quarter.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 17, 2022
Mu received a rare challenge from Ajee’ Wilson, whose American record she seized in Tokyo, at the U.S. championships but outraced her over the final 20 meters.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 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
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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
This is about chasing a title while LeBron James still is outracing time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2023
We can keep out of his way," said the colonel, "but, next thing to outracing Great Bear, I want to get a sight of Tetzcatl.
From The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo by William O. Stoddard