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 organizations that pull ahead will be the ones that use AI to understand customers more deeply, personalize experiences more effectively, develop new products more quickly and create business models that weren't previously possible. — Shelley Stewart Iii, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

Shtilerman admitted to me that a mix of these factors had allowed his company to pull ahead. — Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026

Just as Karatsuba’s algorithm only outperforms the grade-school approach when numbers get reasonably large, the Harvey-van der Hoeven algorithm doesn’t pull ahead until the numbers become truly galactic. — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 13 July 2026

Los Angeles scored just eight points in the third quarter as Seattle pulled ahead 68-48. — ABC News, 7 July 2026

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