someone's heart/mind/pulse races

race | American Dictionary

race
noun
us/reɪs/

racenoun (COMPETITION)

[ C ]
a competition between people or animals to see who can get from the starting place to the finish before all the others:
a horse race
She won the 100-meter race in 11.06 seconds.
[ C ]
fig. A race is also an urgent effort:
[ + to infinitive ]It was a race against time to get the project finished by Friday’s deadline.
[ C ] politics & government
A race is also a competition to be elected to a political position:
The governor of California plans to enter the presidential race.

racenoun (PEOPLE)

[ C/U ]
any social group into which humans can be divided according to perceived similarities in their physical characteristics:
[ U ]Discrimination because of race is against the law.
race
verb[ I/T ]
us/reɪs/

raceverb[I/T] (COMPETE)

to compete in a race or run a race with someone:
[ I/T ]He’s been racing (cars) for over ten years.
fig. To race is also to move fast or to happen quickly:
[ Ialways+ adv/prep ]The boys came racing across the playground.
[ Ialways+ adv/prep ]Last summer seemed to race by.

Examples of race

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To be more precise, he runs away from the law by defiantly refusing to win the race as the favourite competitor.
Overall, the clines tended to be wider the further they were from the race centre.
But, unlike them, she recognizes race even as she seeks to transcend it.
It should also look into the issue whether regulatory competition is really a race and if so what do we mean by that.
Or should they help and support each other and race to the top standards?
By this time the statistics were not broken down by race (although, interestingly, the tribal breakdown remained).
In addition to these factors, we also examine race and insurance status.
The choice among all the actions that are simultaneously enabled at the same state is governed by the race policy.
Cross-cutting subject areas include children and the family, disability, gender, mental health, old age, race/ethnicity and young people.
The data were then re-examined in the light of the phylogenetic analysis by identifying the races to which the individuals used in the study belonged.
Thus, this dataset represents the closest thing to a universe of advertisements that exists for these races.
And the issue of race, evidently, was a crucial one.
This vision is not afraid to give special recognition to the poor through, for example, race and gender preferences, because of their marginalisation.
These associations remained significant after adjustments for age, gender, race, marital status and education.
Her contact with even the best of this race is fatal.
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Collocations withrace

race

These are words often used in combination with race.

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alien race
People will almost certainly want to communicate with an alienrace if we know it exists.
bicycle race
What race meeting, what point-to-point meeting, does not involve the police controlling the traffic on the roads for a long period—much longer than for a bicyclerace?
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