pull ahead

verb

pulled ahead; pulling ahead; pulls ahead

: to take the lead in a race, competition, contest, etc.

The two runners were side by side until one pulled ahead.

—often + of

He has pulled ahead of the other candidates in the election polls.

Examples of pull ahead in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The ones that pull ahead will have already worked out answers to the rest. — Gregory Lipich, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

And with some recent polling showing Poindexter pulling ahead of Miller, with a large majority of voters in the district already aware of the abuse allegations, the Democrat’s strategy could be working. — Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Chris Ratcliffe—Bloomberg/Getty Images There are signs the models may be pulling ahead. — Harry Booth, Time, 7 Aug. 2026

China, via Moonshot and DeepSeek, has pulled ahead in the open-model race. — Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026

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