I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bike race
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The Tour de France is a famous bike race.
a boat race
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There’s a boat race on the river tomorrow.
a championship race
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She was well ahead in the championship race.
a cycle race
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the annual cycle race around France
a racing bike
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He bought a cool new racing bike.
a racing car ( also a race car American English )
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He became a racing car driver.
a racing driver (= driving racing cars in competitions )
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world famous racing drivers like Lewis Hamilton
arms race
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the nuclear arms race
clouds race/scud (= move quickly )
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A wind was blowing and soft clouds were scudding across the sky.
drag race
flat racing
get out of/quit the rat race
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the story of a couple who quit the rat race
golfing/sporting/racing etc calendar
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The Derby is a major event in the racing calendar.
horse racing
human race
master race
motor racing
nuclear arms race
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the nuclear arms race
obstacle race
prepare yourself for a race/fight etc
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The Chicago Bears are busy preparing themselves for the big game.
race car
race meeting
race relations (= relations between people from different races who live in the same place )
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New government measures aim to improve race relations in inner cities.
race relations
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We need to do more to promote good race relations.
race riot
race riots (= caused by a problem between different races )
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In 1967, there were race riots in a number of major American cities.
racial/race discrimination
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Laws have been passed banning racial discrimination.
racial/race hatred
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Feelings of racial hatred were drummed into him as a child.
racing car
rat race
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the story of a couple who quit the rat race
relay race
sack race
sb's pulse races (= beats very quickly )
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His long fingers brushed hers, sending her pulse racing.
sb’s heart races (= it beats very fast )
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Was there someone in the alley? Joe’s heart began to race.
three-legged race
win a race
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He should have won that race but he came third.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
human
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It was to change the life of the human race as much as had steam.
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In this experiment in controlled sociology, various sample populations had been assured that the human race had made contact with extraterrestrials.
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Nick Ellis, London Does the human race have a future longer than its past?
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There have been three significant changes in the way the human race has worked.
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May we strive to become involved, not just in ourselves, but in the rest of the human race .
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One could gather the entire written output of the human race and load it into a single moving van.
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Her hair was taken back just on one side, and she smiled in the general direction of the entire human race .
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Community shame is a great motivator, has been for thousands of years in the history of the human race .
presidential
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The only serious contender left in the presidential race is Guei himself.
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Gramm, 53, is the third candidate to quit the presidential race .
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The cost of the presidential and congressional races may top $ 1. 6 billion.
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Lamar Alexander, who dropped out of the presidential race Wednesday, to endorse him in Nashville on Friday.
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And even if the agency avoids further scathing, it is likely to become a hot target in the presidential race .
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It also demonstrated how volatile the presidential race is, with change an ever-present participant.
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It also demonstrated how volatile is a presidential race in which change is an ever-present participant.
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To climb back into the presidential race , he must get abortion off the agenda.
■ NOUN
card
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Mugabe now plays the race card .
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And he comes with no cumbersome race card .
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The only race card being played is being played by the right hon. Gentleman.
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It will give the various groups and Tory Members who seek to play the race card the opportunity to do so.
horse
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The Grand National as always, has been the horse race of the year.
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The musicals are a real horse race .
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The women's competition was a two horse race between last year's winners Surrey and previous champions Essex.
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It is certainly better than any horse race , or any other gambling, when the odds are never in your favor.
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Meanwhile Labour insist Cheltenham is now a 3 horse race with issues not personalities at the forefront.
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Because for once the Grammy contest is shaping up as a real horse race .
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As the spirit of the day mounted, there would probably be horse races and wrestling matches to entertain the folks.
meeting
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Now, there were two days on which the only race meeting were in the north.
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One could imagine her at a shires garden party or a race meeting .
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The first detailed record of a race meeting dates from 1709 when the course was levelled and improved.
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Exhibitions, cup finals, race meetings , and great royal occasions drew the excursionists to their local station.
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The school grounds had been used as a car park during yesterday's race meeting .
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The blue suit that no longer went to the Curragh race meetings or the Dublin Horse Show, was his evening wear.
rat
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Children are forced into the rat race for higher salary and prestige.
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An executive from an international chemical company has given up the rat race to run a plant nursery.
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Too much of a rat race .
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Life is a rat race . 35.
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At least we would be out of the rat race until I had worked up some seniority in my job.
riot
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Apart from politically inspired race riots in the early 1960s, rarely did Black people behave badly towards us.
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From her seat above the town, Clappe watches the race riot .
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Notting Hill Carnival began unofficially in 1959 as a response to the the previous year's race riots .
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In 1967, the nation was traumatized by race riots in a number of major cities.
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Now however, a miniature version of the race riot that Gallagher had predicted exploded on campus.
road
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There was a cycle road race and a ten mile road walking race, fly-casting and clay-pigeon shooting competitions.
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Don't miss our London seminar April 21 will be the biggest day in the 1991 road race calendar.
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Success in this 85 mile road race is only one of Andy's many cycling achievements.
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Even so it was just great to get back on a road race bike again in February.
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The men's senior road race champion for 1991 was the ever improving Matt Stevens.
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Four years later the most famous of all road races , the Mille Miglia, was created.
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Once he had the capacity for international road race events.
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But as part of a council cost cutting exercise the Redcar ten mile road race will not be held this year.
senate
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This year, one wealthy candidate dropped $ 12 million of his own money into a Senate race .
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In all other Senate races , incumbents won, including Tom Harkin, D-Iowa.
■ VERB
enter
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For him, from the moment you entered the race , there could be no respite.
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Feinstein has let it be known that she is considering entering the race for governor.
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More than 200 riders have entered the 10 races , which begin at 11.30 a.m.
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Colin Powell might enter the race .
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The classy eight-year-old has never before been entered in either race .
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The story was about two rival South London gangs building soapbox cars to enter for a race .
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He displayed pride in having fared far better than anyone anticipated when he entered the race .
lose
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But be sure that others will not be so inhibited, and too much hesitation will lose the competitive race .
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Pre won, of course; he never lost in 25 races longer than a mile at Hayward Field.
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You've already lost me one race because you're still hung up on that business at Ascot.
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Faster, faster, faster yet; hurry or lose the race .
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I lost the race and finished up trying to row half a dinghy with the crew cheering in the distance.
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Once again this autumn, I lost the race with the squirrels to harvest the hazel nuts.
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In a bitter defeat, Lugar lost a race for school board president and decided to leave the board.
run
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The rest of us are running a different race - by choice perhaps.
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Over the course of the Olympics, he ran eight races in seven days en route to his historic victories.
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The Unlimited Silver saw Bill Rheinschild run away the race .
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She ran a marvellous race when third to Runun over the course recently.
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It is also true that Mr Brown, despite his political prowess, has never run in a statewide race .
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It is a bit like running a race with no starting or finishing lines.
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Older wardens planned, and even some of them ran , races of all kinds.
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Then at the Nürburgring, the 003 ran its last race , with Regazzoni pushing him off.
win
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His colleagues vowed to win the race again in his honour.
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In 1993, Fellows won 3 of 13 races , but wound up runner-up.
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I won my race into a 1.5 metres per second wind.
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You may not win every race .
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I wanted to win that race .
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Today, at last, the economy looks as if it may win the race against soaring population figures.
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While Republicans should be uniting behind Dole to win the race , Pete Wilson is looking forward to making a brokered convention.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(of) mixed race
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Elsewhere, people of mixed race lost their monopoly of the middling-rank jobs, as they found themselves jostled from below.
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Equally, though, there are unique burdens associated with being born into a mixed race family.
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The murder suspect is described as of black or mixed race in his early 20s.
a two/three/four etc horse race
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The women's competition was a two horse race between last year's winners Surrey and previous champions Essex.
one-horse race
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It was a jibe that nearly became a prophecy, though Cambridge were left with more of a one-horse race.
play the race/nationalist/environmentalist etc card
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It will give the various groups and Tory Members who seek to play the race card the opportunity to do so.
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Mugabe now plays the race card.
race/work/battle against time
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But his parents are faced with a desperate race against time to raise the money necessary for his treatment.
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For the cartoonists, it's a daily battle against time , to create work that captures the imagination.
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However, with the contract negotiations starting, Lipton and others know that they are fighting a battle against time .
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It is a race against time .
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It looks as if my whole life is a race against time .
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Now it is a race against time to rebuild it before high spring ties later this month.
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The picture which became the cover shot, of the Rollright Stones, was a particular race against time .
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They face a race against time as fears grow over the health of the whales and the possibility of their becoming beached.
the human race
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Pollution is threatening the future of the human race.
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The entire human race could be wiped out by nuclear war.
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Until then, no member of the human race had ever been able to make a map of the whole world.
the rat race
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a person of mixed race
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He's won three races in a row, using the same car and the same engine.
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He lost to Pfeiffer in last year's mayoral race .
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He lost to Pfeiffer in the race for district attorney.
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Her husband spent all their money gambling on horse races.
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Hill won the race , and Schumacher finished second.
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human beings of all races
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In the race for the White House, candidates will promise almost anything.
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It's a 10 kilometer race from downtown to the river.
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Krystal has already qualified for the hundred-metre race in the Olympics next year.
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Lewis won his final race .
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Mary was discriminated against because of her age and race .
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people of all races and religions
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People should be treated equally, regardless of their race , age, or sex.
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Studies are under way to find out why men of some races are more prone to some forms of cancer than others.
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the annual university boat race between Oxford and Cambridge
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the arms race
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the Breeder's Cup races at Churchill Downs.
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The group is working to improve race relations in our cities.
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the Nordic races
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A test ban that could not inspire confidence would undermine stability and might even provoke a new arms race .
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And they now look set to promote more harmonious race relations in the community after passing with flying colours.
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From then on she discovered many things about the human race , but could find no explanations for them.
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Glengormley's Jeremy McWilliam's gave the home fans a further treat with victories in both Superbike races.
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Some of the new proteins result from an arms race between animals and plants.
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Still others require respondents to choose just one race category.
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This is presumably what happens in the cases of light, match and race discussed above.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
ahead
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As Pearl shares raced ahead there was some determined buying of merchant banks, particularly Morgan Grenfell.
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With stocks racing ahead and the Dow and Nasdaq in record territory day after day, our office phones are unusually quiet.
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Wildly Rachel's mind raced ahead .
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Everywhere, it seemed, people were racing ahead of me toward my goals.
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Culture and symbolic language, once developed through evolution, allow humans to race ahead .
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But in some ways, the students' technical skills have raced ahead of conceptual understanding.
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False beginners may now race ahead .
around
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Course racing A discipline of competitive windsurfing which involves racing around a course marked by a series of buoys.
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Last month she was racing around looking at holiday cards for snow dome images.
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But it is Day-Lewis who dominates everything as he races around , long locks flowing and trusty musket in tow.
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Yanto, full of excited anticipation, had raced around to Bert's garage as soon as work finished on Friday.
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As Guy sat contemplating this conclusion, a fair-haired child came racing around the corner of the north tower.
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And if the curtains stirred, I'd race around the block, then slowly ride by once again.
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As he raced around one sharp corner he almost ran into the back of a slow moving lorry.
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A torrent of words pour out as thoughts race around in her head, vying with each other for verbal expression.
off
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If a cat struck its leg in the air, they all raced off , screaming that they'd seen something move.
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They go racing off the edge like Thelma and Louise.
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Meh'Lindi turned and raced off up a steel stairway.
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Otis had raced off somewhere else.
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Hank raced off before I could collar him, scampering like a puppy along a path leading up to the Mills Observatory.
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Others, like Nordstrom, raced off in search of other routes to their homes.
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The rest raced off , bouncing across the heather.
■ NOUN
heart
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Whenever he came in my direction, it was just electric-my heart started racing .
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Her heart was racing , but it had to be said.
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David froze, his heart racing as fast as it had been a couple of minutes before.
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My heart is racing faster than Michael Johnson.
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A chair shifted, my heart raced , Conchis spoke a single indistinguishable word in a low voice.
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His groin had moved with the danger in such a thing; his heart had raced .
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For a moment Schramm could not swallow and his heart began to race .
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So we peed in the showers, giggling, our hearts racing with the forbidden act.
mind
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My mind raced , what does he want?
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Her head was swirling, her mind was racing , her ankle was swelling and her left leg was numb.
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Her mind was racing , though.
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I watched it inching nearer, my mind racing this way and that with the possibilities of what must be done.
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Wildly Rachel's mind raced ahead.
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She considered what she had discovered, her mind racing like a Roladex.
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In any case, Amiss's mind was racing , grappling with a situation devoid of any rational explanation.
pulse
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I shook my head, my pulse still racing from the shock.
pulses
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As a contest it was neither designed to set the pulses racing nor win converts.
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A comedy which will set pulses racing .
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The leaden hand of the Government's speechwriters set no pulses racing .
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The sudden shock and noise of whirring wings broke the stillness and left our pulses racing .
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Take a seat behind the wheel and there isn't much to get the pulses racing either.
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There was something about this man that set her pulses racing .
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Brief encounter at despatch box sets Tory pulses racing Sketch.
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And why were her own pulses racing as if the floodgates of her bloodstream had been opened?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(of) mixed race
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Elsewhere, people of mixed race lost their monopoly of the middling-rank jobs, as they found themselves jostled from below.
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Equally, though, there are unique burdens associated with being born into a mixed race family.
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The murder suspect is described as of black or mixed race in his early 20s.
a two/three/four etc horse race
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The women's competition was a two horse race between last year's winners Surrey and previous champions Essex.
car/bike/greyhound etc racing
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As a boy you were so butch it hurt. Bike racing champ, marble wizard.
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Home of County cricket, League football and a greyhound racing stadium.
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Mosley's vision of cars and car racing in the next century would matter in this ecology-conscious age worried by recession.
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Sporting events such as car racing give me a headache.
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Stock car racing , they say, is family-oriented.
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Stock car racing , though, is old-fashioned.
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The move would not interfere with greyhound racing and would leave the old Plough Lane football ground available for redevelopment.
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They may beat us at cricket and bike racing , but we are better on crags!
one-horse race
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It was a jibe that nearly became a prophecy, though Cambridge were left with more of a one-horse race.
race/work/battle against time
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But his parents are faced with a desperate race against time to raise the money necessary for his treatment.
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For the cartoonists, it's a daily battle against time , to create work that captures the imagination.
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However, with the contract negotiations starting, Lipton and others know that they are fighting a battle against time .
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It is a race against time .
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It looks as if my whole life is a race against time .
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Now it is a race against time to rebuild it before high spring ties later this month.
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The picture which became the cover shot, of the Rollright Stones, was a particular race against time .
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They face a race against time as fears grow over the health of the whales and the possibility of their becoming beached.
sb's mind is racing
the human race
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Pollution is threatening the future of the human race.
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The entire human race could be wiped out by nuclear war.
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Until then, no member of the human race had ever been able to make a map of the whole world.
the rat race
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Schumacher will be racing in the Monaco Grand Prix.
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Some kids were racing rubber ducks in the stream.
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Trent woke at three a.m., his heart racing.
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Turner grabbed the ball and raced 65 yards for a touchdown.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another one races by, touches my hand, and keeps running.
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As a contest it was neither designed to set the pulses racing nor win converts.
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At one time for example she was reported to have been racing around Melbourne in a brand new pink sports car.
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Every Kentucky Derby winner since 1984 already had raced three or four times as a 3-year-old.
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In two weeks, they race over 1,000 miles.
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Mr Sammler seen seeing was still in rapid currents with his heart. like an escaping creature racing away from him.
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On days like today they get the chance to race it.