Lead
Lead verb - To point out the way for (someone) especially from a position in front.
Race
Race verb - To engage in a contest.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| good | good lead | good race |
| female | female lead | female race |
| particular | particular lead | particular race |
| normal | normal lead | normal race |
| Other adjectives: certain, current, original, single, powerful, actual, entire, main, young, new, titular, eponymous. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Another time traveler arrives to argue for the opposite, as humanity's expansion to the stars will eventually cause us to piss off an advanced alien race and lead to our destruction.
Source: Science Is Bad - He claims that the Ork gods Gork and Mork speak to him, and he believes that he is destined to unite the Ork race and lead them on an end-to-end rampage across the galaxy to stamp everything in their path flat.
Source: Dark Messiah -
Interchangeable Asian Cultures: One character makes a terrible, "sexy" pun about her friend's race as a lead-up to a threesome.
Source: Film / Love and Other Drugs
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