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races

/ ˈreɪsɪz /

plural noun

the races
the races a series of contests of speed between horses (or sometimes greyhounds) over a set course at prearranged times; a race meeting

This is going to be the Game of Thrones of U.S. Senate races.

And, of course, it was against the mixing of the races that the music inevitably provoked.

She is able to create coattails for down-ballot races and to change the narrative frame of politics.

Overall, young African Americans are killed by cops 4.5 times more often than people of other races and ages.

And now many of those Democrats are heading home after long careers in public life, with some losing easily winnable races.

A like indifference to the position of a picture, and of a letter, has been observed among backward races.

What the armor-bearer was for the warlike races of old, such is the tchbukdi for their degenerate descendants.

The human species,” Charles Lamb says, “is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

Our dragoman kept at bay all the clamouring crowd of porters, guides and nondescripts of all colours and races that besieged us.

In all savage races it has been recognised and dreaded, this phenomenon styled 'Wehr Wolf,' but to-day it is rare.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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