races
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Generally, these sorts of races are more dangerous than F1.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
Kalshi said last month that it fined and suspended three congressional candidates for betting on their own races.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
Taj Mahal has one other edge, winning three previous races at Laurel Park, current home of the Preakness.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2026
Approximately 42,000 voters had already cast absentee ballots with those races on them.
From Salon • May 16, 2026
Strict separation of the races would have threatened slaveholders’ immediate interests and was, in any event, wholly unnecessary as a means of creating social distance or establishing the inferior status of slaves.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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