outrace
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The National Trust said earlier this month that the administration was "working around the clock in an attempt to outrace judicial review."
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
He danced and juked, dodged and eluded tacklers, using his instincts to find open space that allowed him to use his speed to outrace the defense into the end zone.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
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
I’ve got to get ahead of Jay, outrace the current.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
With just over six minutes left, Chambliss took a snap, sprinted left and outraced an LSU cornerback on a 14-yard dash to the corner of the end zone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
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
When Morata outraced defender Niklas Süle and ticked it up and in just inside the left post, Germany looked somewhere close to hopeless.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2022
He loped across the grass, easily outraced them all, and gobbled the ball up, sweeping it into his jaws with that huge tongue.
From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers
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
But in certain situations -- outracing or outmaneuvering a predator, for example -- the ratios of those periods change drastically.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2023
That is, there are few sights more cinematic than a human being outracing danger and even death onscreen — it’s the ultimate wish fulfillment!
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 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
And now down the hall came an old gray dog, wild with delight, outracing Polly Ann, who thought it was a play and leaped after him—Muffin had found his master!
From The Tin Soldier by Temple Bailey
