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7 total sentences available.
Monza was the seventh race in a row at which Leclerc had out-qualified Vettel. There were extenuating circumstances this time - Vettel did not have a slipstream on his first lap and the farcical end to qualifying prevented him doing another - but a clear pattern is emerging.
Source: wiktionary
The Republicans, who in fact quintessentially represent what I understand to be private and special interests of a narrow economic kind, have nevertheless managed, flying in the slipstream of Ronald Reagan's rhetoric, to look like the true guardians of the nation's public interest.
Source: wiktionary
Slipstream is not simply a mixture of fantasy and realism, but something which lies between or even beyond the two.
Source: wiktionary
Although dangerous, over-the-road truck drivers sometimes slipstream with each other to save fuel.
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Closest matches include airstream, backwash, race, wash.
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