noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
A slow gazelle might never be unlucky enough to meet a cheetah , but a slow cheetah that never catches anything dies.
▪
Gazelles are not trying to eat cheetahs, they are trying to avoid being eaten by cheetahs.
▪
It is like the gazelle running faster than other gazelles rather than running faster than cheetahs.
▪
So the downside is greater for the cheetah .
▪
Sprint and jink though the gazelle may, there is nothing to deflect the cheetah from the chase.
▪
The average cheetah will change over the centuries, just like the mean annual rainfall changes.
▪
Those are the moments when the cheetah can creep slowly forward.