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get ahead

verb

  1. to be successful; prosper
  2. foll by of to surpass or excel
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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“I want to give him opportunities, and in order to do that, I have to get ahead,” said Orea, a single mother.

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It’s just that every loop brings new nightmares, unknown dangers and different predators, never allowing the group to get ahead of things.

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"There is a 26.2 mile course between me and that at the moment, so I don't need to get ahead of myself," she says.

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"We want the US to get ahead of China in this resource space under the ocean, on the ocean bottom," a US official said on Thursday.

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The drop-off follows a period of higher import volume as companies tried to get ahead of the tariffs.

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