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Michael Callahan failed to corral the puck at the offensive blue line, sending him stumbling into a neutral-zone footrace with Nesterenko.
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Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 27 Mar. 2025
The statement of carrying this symbolic weight through the toughest footrace on Earth through the Sahara Desert was certainly a powerful one.
—Paras J. Haji, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
Following a warning from an oracle, Atalanta, known for her swift running pace, proclaimed that a potential suitor must beat her in a footrace, and that losers be killed.
—Natasha Gural, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
But Tom and Park ran a footrace when a second flag tipped up and hand-over-handed a fat walleye onto the ice.
—Erwin A. Bauer, Outdoor Life, 25 Dec. 2024
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Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 27 Mar. 2025
The statement of carrying this symbolic weight through the toughest footrace on Earth through the Sahara Desert was certainly a powerful one.
—Paras J. Haji, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
Following a warning from an oracle, Atalanta, known for her swift running pace, proclaimed that a potential suitor must beat her in a footrace, and that losers be killed.
—Natasha Gural, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
But Tom and Park ran a footrace when a second flag tipped up and hand-over-handed a fat walleye onto the ice.
—Erwin A. Bauer, Outdoor Life, 25 Dec. 2024
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“Footrace.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/footrace. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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footrace
noun
foot·race
-ˌrās 
: a race run on foot
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