How to Use outrace in a Sentence
outrace
verb
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Three times, Kyle Larson needed to outrace the rest of the contenders on late restarts.
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Noah Trister,
courant.com,
18 June 2017
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Etienne might be poised to outrace Alabama's Najee Harris to be the first back off the board, maybe in the first round.
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Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz,
USA TODAY,
2 Apr. 2021
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On the following play, Maes broke up the middle and then to the left sideline before outracing the Nighthawks’ defense to the end zone.
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Rick Hoff,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Aug. 2023
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Hollow-core fiber is the latest in a series of advances that fast traders have used to try to outrace their competition.
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Alexander Osipovich,
WSJ,
15 Dec. 2020
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The government is hoping that vaccines may outrace the new variant.
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Washington Post,
19 May 2021
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This is about chasing a title while LeBron James still is outracing time.
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Bill Plaschke,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Aug. 2023
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Some people try to deny that the window is closing, thinking Curry might be the one guy who can outrace Father Time.
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Ann Killion,
San Francisco Chronicle,
18 Oct. 2021
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Their rapid-fire sentences overlap and outrace each other — Brydon and Coogan are like twin squirrels trying to climb a ladder at the same time.
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Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
11 Aug. 2017
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In the second, Africentric playing in a full court frenzy just as the Wildcats have all year, was able to outrace their opponent for a nine-point halftime lead.
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Scott Springer,
Cincinnati.com,
24 Mar. 2018
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Following the Marshall score, Johnston found Shropshire again on third down with a 71-yard touchdown pass that saw the receiver shrug off a defender and outrace the rest of the defense to the end zone.
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Evan Dudley,
al,
19 Dec. 2020
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Fifty miles south, in Astoria, commercial fishing trawlers try to outrace the tsunami by heading up the Columbia River.
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Bruce Barcott,
Outside Online,
25 Aug. 2011
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Bloom — brisk, animated, with a mind that sometimes outraces her mouth — apparently finds a 3.75 G-force relaxing.
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Alexis Soloski,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2023
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Vaccine officials are trying to outrace a surging rate of infections.
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Washington Post,
4 Jan. 2021
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Viral videos posted online show rhinos aggressively chasing visitors in India safari parks as the drivers do their best to outrace the beasts.
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Peter Aitken,
Fox News,
6 Jan. 2023
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Morris uses more natural speed to outrace opponents to balls and has certainly enjoyed plenty of chances this season — though without finishing the vast majority of them.
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Geoff Baker,
The Seattle Times,
19 June 2017
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Collaboration is necessary to outrace malicious actors in the near future, Harrington, Wang and others say.
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Stephen Ornes,
Discover Magazine,
3 Jan. 2019
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As Andy McCarthy has repeatedly pointed out, the right to a speedy trial belongs to the defendant, but Smith has transformed it into a prerogative of a panicked prosecutor trying to outrace the political calendar.
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Rich Lowry,
National Review,
14 Jan. 2024
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Still, the mounting evidence suggests that mutant viruses can diminish the efficacy of vaccines, increasing the pressure on countries to quickly vaccinate their populations and outrace the variants.
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New York Times,
Star Tribune,
5 Feb. 2021
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Macron's administration has been hoping to outrace the resurgent outbreak with its vaccination campaign, an ambition that appears increasingly unrealistic as hospitals struggle.
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John Leicester and Jeffrey Schaeffer,
Star Tribune,
28 Mar. 2021
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