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vb. (en-simple past of: get ahead)
Usage examples of "got ahead".
At last we got ahead of it, where it slithered in mile-wide devastation through the jungle -- but not very far ahead at that.
Somehow or other, they got ahead, and the Prince and Dorothy Forster, who were next behind, made no effort to come up with them.
When I finally got ahead of the dust trail, and was sitting directly above the grounder's vehicle, I slowed down to match his speed.
Burning her thrusters for an extra burst of speed, she got ahead of Ship Two.
Spend a few minutes out of the infinite swarm of centuries you've got ahead of you to humor an old man.
Whenever he stayed home in the evening he went to bed early, and thriftily got ahead in those dismal duties.
The Posleen actually got ahead of him at one point, but he managed to get a ride on a five-ton that snuck around them to the east.
Miller of Philadelphia - and he thinks he's got ahead of you with your cure.