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race off

verb

  1. informal,  (tr, adverb) to entice (a person) away with a view to seduction

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Blake: So I guess this means Dustin Hoffman won’t show up at the last minute and race off with Theresa in a city bus?

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Like everybody else, Russell has had to watch Verstappen race off into the distance this season - but can he learn anything from his front-row view of a man at the very peak of performance?

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The Governor's most significant contribution appears to have been to convince the Rutgers administration to not race off to court to get an injunction against the strike and deepen the adversarial divide.

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“We, like everyone, have a lot of development coming, so we are encouraged at what we see around the corner, but I think we will be going into the the first race off of our projected targets,” McLaren CEO Zak Brown said.

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And it was so derby style and crazy that one fishery had an actual starting gun that would be fired and people would race off to the ocean and catch as much as they could.

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