Outrun
Set off
Set off verb - To cause to function.
Both terms in one sentence
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In the Walker, Texas Ranger episode "War Zone", Walker and Trivette must outrun a bomb explosion set off in a house by a dead body.
Source: Outrun the Fireball - Outrun the Fireball: Samus uses her rocket boots to fly herself and MC away from MC's last ditch attack, which is to set off the Spartan armor's self destruct bomb.
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In Independence Day, our two heroes set off a nuclear explosion in the alien mothership and try to Outrun the Fireball, but it catches up to them.
Source: Disney Death
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Set off and Outrun. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/outrun/set_off
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