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Recent Examples of outrace
The man is trying to outrace his own irrelevance, but time always marches forward, our bodies always fail, there’s always a younger person snapping at your heels.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 May 2025
Opponents are figuring out how neutralize Miami by denying Messi and his attacking partners space to work their magic and outracing Miami players in transition.
—Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 11 May 2025
For a Ferrari driver to get beaten, admittedly in his first Grand Prix, and to be outraced by Alex Albon in the Williams is a bit embarrassing, to be honest.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
The commanding heights of power are populated by pedestrian thinkers as technology, including artificial intelligence, continues to outrace moral or philosophical wisdom.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 12 Dec. 2024
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 May 2025
Opponents are figuring out how neutralize Miami by denying Messi and his attacking partners space to work their magic and outracing Miami players in transition.
—Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 11 May 2025
For a Ferrari driver to get beaten, admittedly in his first Grand Prix, and to be outraced by Alex Albon in the Williams is a bit embarrassing, to be honest.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
The commanding heights of power are populated by pedestrian thinkers as technology, including artificial intelligence, continues to outrace moral or philosophical wisdom.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 12 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outrace
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The girl tried to outrun the turning bus before she was hit, video of the horrific incident shows.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
6 Feb. 2026
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The result is a fractured information ecosystem where virality matters more than truth, speed outruns verification and public understanding is shaped less by facts than by whoever captures attention first.—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
1 Feb. 2026
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But inflation ended up outpacing those increases.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2026
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The country easily outpaces the rest of the developed world in gun deaths and overdoses, both major mortality drivers here that have largely been accepted as the cost of being American.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
9 Feb. 2026
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Gary subsequently attempts to one-up his brother by trying — and spectacularly failing — to flip off of the highest point on the set.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Feb. 2026
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During a performance, Boone does a flip and Stiller attempts to one-up him, jumping from increasingly higher platforms on stage to disastrous, but humorous, effect.—
Sarah Whitten,Sara Salinas,Sarah Jackson,Leslie Josephs,
CNBC,
8 Feb. 2026
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Then again, who’s to say May won’t outdo him with more monster transfers?—
Joe Rexrode,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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Not to be outdone by a property clearly inspired by George Lucas' space opera, LucasArts launched its own ambitious (and wildly successful) series of space sims.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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Finally, here's a story about the S&P 500, which outdistanced most expert forecasts in 2025.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
27 Jan. 2026
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Galaxies outdistance all other visible objects.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
24 Nov. 2025
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“Outrace.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outrace. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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