How to Use outrace in a Sentence
outrace
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Three times, Kyle Larson needed to outrace the rest of the contenders on late restarts.
—Noah Trister, courant.com, 18 June 2017
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Etienne might be poised to outrace Alabama's Najee Harris to be the first back off the board, maybe in the first round.
—Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2021
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On the following play, Maes broke up the middle and then to the left sideline before outracing the Nighthawks’ defense to the end zone.
—Rick Hoff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2023
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Hollow-core fiber is the latest in a series of advances that fast traders have used to try to outrace their competition.
—Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2020
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The government is hoping that vaccines may outrace the new variant.
—Washington Post, 19 May 2021
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This is about chasing a title while LeBron James still is outracing time.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
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Some people try to deny that the window is closing, thinking Curry might be the one guy who can outrace Father Time.
—Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Oct. 2021
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Their rapid-fire sentences overlap and outrace each other — Brydon and Coogan are like twin squirrels trying to climb a ladder at the same time.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 11 Aug. 2017
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In the second, Africentric playing in a full court frenzy just as the Wildcats have all year, was able to outrace their opponent for a nine-point halftime lead.
—Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, 24 Mar. 2018
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Following the Marshall score, Johnston found Shropshire again on third down with a 71-yard touchdown pass that saw the receiver shrug off a defender and outrace the rest of the defense to the end zone.
—Evan Dudley, al, 19 Dec. 2020
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Fifty miles south, in Astoria, commercial fishing trawlers try to outrace the tsunami by heading up the Columbia River.
—Bruce Barcott, Outside Online, 25 Aug. 2011
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Vaccine officials are trying to outrace a surging rate of infections.
—Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2021
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Viral videos posted online show rhinos aggressively chasing visitors in India safari parks as the drivers do their best to outrace the beasts.
—Peter Aitken, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2023
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Morris uses more natural speed to outrace opponents to balls and has certainly enjoyed plenty of chances this season — though without finishing the vast majority of them.
—Geoff Baker, The Seattle Times, 19 June 2017
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Collaboration is necessary to outrace malicious actors in the near future, Harrington, Wang and others say.
—Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2019
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Still, the mounting evidence suggests that mutant viruses can diminish the efficacy of vaccines, increasing the pressure on countries to quickly vaccinate their populations and outrace the variants.
—New York Times, Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021
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Macron's administration has been hoping to outrace the resurgent outbreak with its vaccination campaign, an ambition that appears increasingly unrealistic as hospitals struggle.
—John Leicester and Jeffrey Schaeffer, Star Tribune, 28 Mar. 2021
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