outrace
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of outrace
Example Sentences
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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
He’s in such peak physical condition that you believe Isaiah’s conviction that it’s possible to outrace Father Time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025
He danced and juked, dodged and eluded tacklers, using his instincts to find open space that allowed him to use his speed to outrace the defense into the end zone.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
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
I’ve got to get ahead of Jay, outrace the current.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
With just over six minutes left, Chambliss took a snap, sprinted left and outraced an LSU cornerback on a 14-yard dash to the corner of the end zone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Out-qualified and outraced by team-mate Ocon during a painful weekend for Haas.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Vaughn dove, gloved the ball and narrowly outraced Bauers to the bag to preserve a 2-0 Chicago lead.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 8, 2023
Mu received a rare challenge from Ajee’ Wilson, whose American record she seized in Tokyo, at the U.S. championships but outraced her over the final 20 meters.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 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
But in certain situations -- outracing or outmaneuvering a predator, for example -- the ratios of those periods change drastically.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2023
This is about chasing a title while LeBron James still is outracing time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 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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