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View definitions for take the lead

take the lead

verb as in rank

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Garbers then added two touchdown passes — a two-yard pass to Titus Mokiao-Atimalala to tie the score followed by a 29-yard strike to Logan Loya to take the lead.

Watch as Aston Villa defender Tyrone Mings gifts Club Brugge a penalty to take the lead in the Champions League with an "extraordinary" handball after picking up a pass from goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez.

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“It goes to show that L.A. has to take the lead on how to win with a multiracial coalition on issues that matter, and fight like hell,” Soto-Martínez replied.

But his overtaking moves were clean and clinical, and the one to take the lead from Esteban Ocon’s Alpine was a beauty - sending it on the brakes from at least two car lengths back.

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Buckaroo had been the favourite to win but finished 9th, with Knight's Choice - a 90-1 outsider - storming home to take the lead in the final seconds.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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