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  • adjective Defining a pace

Etymologies

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pace +‎ setting

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Examples

  • Webber called the pacesetting Red Bull 'faultless' after Friday practice, and it certainly appeared to be the case again.

    BBC News - Home 2010

  • Closely followed the pacesetting Bob Black Jack before fading in the lane.

    How they ran in the Kentucky Derby 2008

  • The Times into profitability as quickly as possible, after decades of red ink, and boost the paper's sagging advertising, circulation, and editorial staff in order to move the paper back into possible profitability, prestige, and a pacesetting position again.

    George Archibald: Can The Washington Times Survive? 2008

  • The Washington Times can no longer claim to be the premiere conservative pacesetting newspaper in the

    George Archibald: Can The Washington Times Survive? 2008

  • But can that conservative-liberal, love-hate scenario that once made the low-circulation Washington Times work as a pacesetting newspaper continue?

    George Archibald: Can The Washington Times Survive? 2008

  • The Washington Times was a feisty, dynamic, pacesetting newspaper in the 1980s and 1990s.

    George Archibald: Can The Washington Times Survive? 2008

  • In 1919, a young lieutenant colonel was cracking across America in an army convoy that would make the trip from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco in a pacesetting 62 days.

    Ode To The Open Road 2006

  • But we have also come to see the Blake project as a pacesetting instance of a fundamental shift in the ideas of "archive," "catalogue," and "edition" as both processes and products.

    Introduction 2003

  • He also could count on Ullrich's Telekom team to share the pacesetting in the mountain stages.

    USATODAY.com - Armstrong under constant attack 2002

  • They both left the day's pacesetting to a breakaway band of three lesser-known cyclists led by Francois Simon of France, who faded in the frantic finish and finished 38th.

    USA TODAY Latest news 2000

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