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[rays] / reɪs /






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He propped up Joury on a railing to watch the horses saunter past as they prepared for the race.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

"As much as I would love to do it, the people I have to race this year...I'm in trouble."

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

About 45% remain undecided — far more than are still mulling the mayor’s race, but far fewer than were on the fence a month ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

The Fawcett Society, which campaigns for women and gender equality, has previously said that asking the question risked maintaining historic unfair differences in pay due to gender, race and disability inequality.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

My pulse began to race, but my step didn’t falter this time, even as he watched me with a small smile on his lips.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

He has won only three races compared with Antonelli's nine.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

And, above all, they made sure Antonelli learned proper English, the language in which races are won and lost.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Instead, they’ll nod and soon regret it as the adviser races ahead, talking in detail about those topics with technical lingo.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

We still aren’t 100 percent clear on who the people behind Wedgewood are, but they may have wanted to make money by manipulating betting markets on the races they claimed to survey.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026

The western boundary of the Black Belt met the eastern boundary of Packingtown at Wentworth Avenue, presenting the opportunity for all sorts of cooperative interaction between the races: in stores, schools, parks, each other’s homes.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

A dreadful short kick-off was caught by Young, who raced through for his hat-trick.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Colleges raced to expand their programs as students flocked to a field that promised lucrative careers in tech.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

During World War II, the United States raced to develop the atomic bomb partly out of fear that Nazi Germany might build one first.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

In Long Beach, with less than two hours before high tide, workers on the Peninsula raced early Sunday morning to build a sand berm stretching westward from 62nd Place.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

Jonah and a bunch of the other boys had jumped in and raced around splashing each other, even scooping up mud balls to throw at each other.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Over the weekend, spectators gathered at Riyadh’s King Abdulaziz Racecourse for an evening of horse racing, despite the fact that the track is barely three miles from the airport.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

The wall of debt that’s coming due starting in 2028 and private-equity firms are racing to negotiate loan extensions on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Even if they make that deadline, will Hamilton still be racing?

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Whereas Hochman often compared L.A. to crime-plagued “Gotham City,” McKinney acknowledges the city’s more recent struggles are not with violence, but with quality-of-life crimes: unchecked homeless encampments, street racing, animal abuse on Skid Row.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

With the ropes dragging uselessly behind him, Gary was racing across the room.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix


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