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outrace

[out-reys] / ˌaʊtˈreɪs /


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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

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

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

Out-qualified and outraced by team-mate Ocon during a painful weekend for Haas.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

But it was otherwise disappointing as he was routinely outraced by teammate Lando Norris.

From Seattle Times Oct. 19, 2023

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

Or Lempicka, in her imagined Bugatti, might still be outracing us.

From New York Times Apr. 1, 2024

Powell beat Stovall to the ball, caught the pass cleanly and took off down the sideline on the UW side before outracing Bourguet to his first score.

From Seattle Times Oct. 22, 2023

But in certain situations -- outracing or outmaneuvering a predator, for example -- the ratios of those periods change drastically.

From Science Daily Oct. 3, 2023

It had been ten chronometer hours since they had eaten, but since they had been outracing light, they were now thirty thousand years in Earth's past.

From Islands of Space by John Wood Campbell




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