Thesaurus / outrun
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When Murray faces the blitz, he can juke or outrun a pass rusher.
THE NFL’S CONFERENCE TITLE GAMES WILL FEATURE AN ENDANGERED SPECIES: THE POCKET PASSERADAM KILGOREJANUARY 21, 2021WASHINGTON POSTI have mostly spent quarantine doing things, taking on new creative projects and challenges, because on some level, I’m trying to outrun my own sense of the world having frozen in place.
THE LOST YEAR: A QUIET YEAR, ALONE IN ONE’S HEADEMILY VANDERWERFFJANUARY 1, 2021VOXLook beneath the surface and you’d see him sweating and paddling to outrun tax bills and bankruptcies and vast foreign debt.
POLITICAL CYNICISM HAS GIVEN WAY TO LOVE IN CHRISTIAN AMERICAJAKEMETHOCTOBER 28, 2020FORTUNEDoing it all, in Abovitz’s eyes, was the only way to outrun the corporate giants who also wanted to own the future.
MAGIC LEAP TRIED TO CREATE AN ALTERNATE REALITY. ITS FOUNDER WAS ALREADY IN ONEVERNE KOPYTOFFSEPTEMBER 26, 2020FORTUNEYou don’t have to—just outrun the slower person also fleeing the bear.
THE MOST SECURE WAYS TO LOCK UP YOUR BIKEBY MICHAEL FRANK/CYCLE VOLTAAUGUST 26, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEHere the “c” is hard and represents 7, and as the steamboat could easily outrun the “scow,” the phrase is easily remembered.
ASSIMILATIVE MEMORYMARCUS DWIGHT LARROWE (AKA PROF. A. LOISETTE)Bill Barry's statement that the cru-colored bovine was "lively" and could outrun his sorrel mare was, at least founded upon fact.
DOROTHY AT SKYRIEEVELYN RAYMONDFor a time it was easy to outrun the wolves and panthers, but at last they began to press hard upon him.
STORIES THE IROQUOIS TELL THEIR CHILDRENMABEL POWERSHe answers by showing how easily ships, without putting themselves out of breath, will outrun soldiers marching along the coast.
SIR WALTER RALEGHWILLIAM STEBBINGWe may outrun / By violent swiftness that which we run at, / And lose by overrunning.
DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS FROM ANCIENT AND MODERN, ENGLISH AND FOREIGN SOURCESJAMES WOODWORDS RELATED TO OUTRUN
- baffled
- beat around the bush
- bilked
- circumvented
- confounded
- copped out
- ditched
- dodged
- doubled
- ducked
- eschewed
- evaded
- fled
- flew
- foiled
- frustrated
- gave the runaround
- gave the slip
- gave wide berth to
- got around
- got away from
- hem and haw
- not touched
- outran
- outwitted
- passed the buck
- passed up
- puzzled
- ran around
- shied
- shirked
- shucked
- shunned
- stalled
- stayed shy of
- steered clear of
- stonewalled
- stumped
- thwarted
- was beyond someone
- beat
- bested
- bettered
- break record
- capped
- distanced
- eclipsed
- excelled
- got upper hand
- had a jump on
- had advantage
- had it all over
- out-distanced
- outdid
- outpaced
- outran
- outreached
- outshone
- outstripped
- overstepped
- overtaxed
- overtook
- passed
- ran circles around
- rose above
- surmounted
- topped
- transcended
- went beyond
- went by
- beats
- bests
- betters
- break record
- caps
- distances
- eclipses
- excels
- gets upper hand
- goes beyond
- goes by
- has a jump on
- has advantage
- has it all over
- out-distances
- outdoes
- outpaces
- outreaches
- outruns
- outshines
- outstrips
- oversteps
- overtakes
- overtaxes
- passes
- rises above
- runs circles around
- surmounts
- tops
- transcends
- be reduces
- becomes poorer
- bereaves
- capitulates
- consumes
- defaults
- depletes
- disinherits
- displaces
- dispossesses
- dissipates
- divests
- drains
- drops
- exhausts
- expends
- fails
- fails to keeps
- falls short
- forfeits
- forgets
- gives up
- is careless
- is impoverished
- lavishes
- misplaces
- misses
- misspends
- ousts
- passes up
- relinquishes
- robs
- sacrifices
- squanders
- suffers
- suffers loss
- surrenders
- uses up
- wastes
- yields
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