race into

race into (someone or something)

1. To run inside of some place or thing in a very hurried or frantic manner. I raced into the house so I could use the bathroom. The teacher raced into our classroom to tell us about the assembly.
2. To collide into someone or something after running around in a very hurried or frantic manner. I wasn't watching where I was going and accidentally raced into the teacher. A child raced into the postbox and nearly knocked it over.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

race into someone or something

to bump or crash into someone or something. The boys raced into the side of the car, and one of them was hurt. We raced into Mary and knocked her over.
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race into something

to run into a place. The children raced into the room and headed straight for their presents. Please don't race into the garden. You will trample the flowers.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • race into (someone or something)
  • race up to
  • race up to (someone or something)
  • race through
  • race through (something)
  • race to
  • race to (someone or something)
  • race to some place
  • race around
  • race out of the traps
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In 2003, the Bush administration and numerous conservative civil rights groups filed briefs stating their opposition to policies that take an applicant's race into account.
The lingering question of race: how have race-conscious aid policies changed since the court's U of Michigan ruling?
Given the widespread belief in colorblindness within contemporary America, the race card refers to those efforts to add race into a supposedly race-neutral situation.
In search of the race card: what did Kobe Bryant's case reveal about the racializing of sexual violence?
Study, travel abroad, and his experience as a black American all stimulated Locke to urge social scientists studying humankind to "abandon as altogether unscientific the conception of physical race groups as basic in anthropology, and throw the category of race into the discard as another of the many popular misconceptions detrimentally foisted upon science" (Harris 164).
The Philosophy of Alain Locke: Harlem Renaissance and Beyond
A judge's literal interpretation of the original rules has unbound boat designers from decades of tradition and transformed this year's race into a no-holds-barred contest.
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