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
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
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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
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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