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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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For years, Victoria’s Secret tried to outrun its legacy of hyper‑narrow beauty standards with cautious rebrands and empowerment slogans that critics derided as box‑checking.—
Emma Hinchliffe,
Fortune,
16 Feb. 2026
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If humanoid robots can soon outrun and outtrain humans, where should limits be set on how and where they are allowed to operate?—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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Republicans also are outpacing their previous early count of 16,062 that year.—
Gromer Jeffers Jr,
Dallas Morning News,
23 Feb. 2026
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Diminishing trust fund reserves The Social Security Administration started tapping into the trust fund reserves in 2021, when the total cost to provide benefits started to outpace the agency's income.—
Mary Cunningham,
CBS News,
23 Feb. 2026
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Maybe to one-up John Cage and his infamous four minutes, thirty-three seconds of silence, Sun Ra had composed a piece for a band that never comes.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 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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Not to be outdone, Meta, fighting a pivotal lawsuit about its culpability with teens and social media addiction, also started multiple super PACs recently, dumping in tens of millions to support candidates — Republican or Democrat — who are against AI regulation (or at least any laws with teeth).—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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This year, though, they’ve been outdone.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
19 Feb. 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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The Wildcats, riding their best start since the 2013-14 season, received all 60 first-place votes from the national media panel to easily outdistance No. 2 Connecticut and No. 3 Michigan, whose places remained unchanged from last week’s poll.—
Dave Skretta,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Outrace.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outrace. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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