one jump ahead
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An ex-CIA agent and his lover write a book about the agency, one jump ahead of agents sent to stop them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2020
Teachers, many of whom knew less about aviation than their pupils, hastened to bone up to keep one jump ahead.
From Time Magazine Archive
National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski retorted that Congress would impose punitive sanctions anyway, so the Administration had better Stay one jump ahead and exert some linkage of its own.
From Time Magazine Archive
Written while Aragon kept one jump ahead of the Germans as a prolific pamphleteer of the Resistance, this novel steers clear of both Communism and World War II.
From Time Magazine Archive
Daisy always seemed to be about one jump ahead of me.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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