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
“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
Fire and wind outrace water and human wit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2021
This expressly decreed that nothing could outrace the speed of light and yet here were physicists insisting that, somehow, at the subatomic level, information could.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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Out-qualified and outraced by team-mate Ocon during a painful weekend for Haas.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Vaughn dove, gloved the ball and narrowly outraced Bauers to the bag to preserve a 2-0 Chicago lead.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 8, 2023
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
In 2009, the then 50-year-old Martin outraced Hendrick teammate Jimmie Johnson to capture the Southern 500.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 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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He began experimenting with a sewing machine and, in 1846, introduced a foot-powered model that could sew 250 stitches a minute, outracing the fastest human hands by a factor of five.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 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
While outracing furious Titans defenders, Herbert connected on an impossible laser down the right sidelined to a leaping Williams for 35 yards to set up the field goal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 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 Clarke, Margaret Bruce