"pull ahead" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "pulls ahead",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulling ahead",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled ahead",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled ahead",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pull ahead (third-person singular simple present pulls ahead, present participle pulling ahead, simple past and past participle pulled ahead)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"ahead\"",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "After being neck-and-neck the whole race, Gibbs managed to pull ahead in the final lap.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 7:26 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 2024-11-29:",
          "text": "The 1833 Slavery Abolition Act had abolished slavery completely in the British Empire, and this, along with the fact that the Empire's military and economic might was beginning to pull even further ahead of other nations', thanks in part to the Industrial Revolution, saw the squadron expand to around twenty-five ships (regularly having to be swapped out because of the high incidence of tropical disease)[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To move into a winning position (e.g. in a race or competition)."
      ],
      "id": "en-pull_ahead-en-verb-tQS4pa8Z",
      "links": [
        [
          "move",
          "move"
        ],
        [
          "winning",
          "winning"
        ],
        [
          "position",
          "position"
        ],
        [
          "race",
          "race"
        ],
        [
          "competition",
          "competition"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, intransitive) To move into a winning position (e.g. in a race or competition)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
  "word": "pull ahead"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pulls ahead",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulling ahead",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled ahead",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled ahead",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pull ahead (third-person singular simple present pulls ahead, present participle pulling ahead, simple past and past participle pulled ahead)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "After being neck-and-neck the whole race, Gibbs managed to pull ahead in the final lap.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 7:26 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 2024-11-29:",
          "text": "The 1833 Slavery Abolition Act had abolished slavery completely in the British Empire, and this, along with the fact that the Empire's military and economic might was beginning to pull even further ahead of other nations', thanks in part to the Industrial Revolution, saw the squadron expand to around twenty-five ships (regularly having to be swapped out because of the high incidence of tropical disease)[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To move into a winning position (e.g. in a race or competition)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "move",
          "move"
        ],
        [
          "winning",
          "winning"
        ],
        [
          "position",
          "position"
        ],
        [
          "race",
          "race"
        ],
        [
          "competition",
          "competition"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, intransitive) To move into a winning position (e.g. in a race or competition)."
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
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