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Princeton's WordNet

  1. rat racenoun

    an exhausting routine that leaves no time for relaxation

Wiktionary

  1. rat racenoun

    An activity or situation which is congested with participants and which is hectic or tedious, especially in the context of a busy, modern urban lifestyle.

Wikipedia

  1. Rat Race

    Rat Race is a single by British rock band Enter Shikari. The song was first played on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio One show on the evening of 31 October 2013. The single was released with a remix of the song Radiate by Enter Shikari's alter ego Shikari Sound System. The band also released an EP, which compiled the two previous singles "The Paddington Frisk" and "Radiate". The "Rat Race" single peaked at #77 on the UK Singles Chart on 16 November 2013.

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  1. rat race

    A rat race is a term used to describe a frustrating, hard-to-win, and competitive pursuit. It generally refers to a lifestyle characterized by working long hours on repetitive tasks in pursuit of career advancement, wealth, or personal success, which is often associated with stress and lack of fulfillment.

Wikidata

  1. Rat race

    A rat race is an endless, self-defeating, or pointless pursuit. It conjures up the image of the futile efforts of a lab rat trying to escape while running around a maze or in a wheel.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of rat race in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of rat race in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of rat race in a Sentence

  1. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

    when I look at you here is what I see:- an open ended tube from mouth to anus. this is called the -human race- who, without love, is a total disgrace, each one trying to find his place in this eternal rat race.I am ras cardo!

  2. Abdullahi Boru Halakhe:

    Their experiences with racism are limited – especially on a personal level, additionally, most arrive via school or work. As a result, they put their heads down and focus … Many are in the rat race to join the job market, or go back to their home countries. There is a gulf in knowledge and understanding, especially the nuances and personal experiences.

  3. Ramana Pemmaraju:

    there has never been a moment in one's life when one might not have stumbled upon this strange reality: what am I doing, where am I so hurriedly running, what is my objective, this whole world is a rat race and I'm going no where, with out any goal, isn't it?. this thought comes to me very often. alas! what to do, don't know what and where to knock the door and experience reality. no sooner that I try, I'm again fallen into the dismal depths of abyss, into the worldly affairs”

  4. Todd Fisher:

    He had just moved in, and he was showing us around the house, i had just gotten to town and, being a teenager, he assumed that Carrie Fisher and I were smoking a little pot … So he puts his arm around me and he goes, ‘ Hey, man. ’ Puts a couple joints in my pocket, and he goes, ‘ Do n’t go to strangers. ’ I ’d only known him from the movies. I was a little kid when he made the movie ‘ The Rat Race ’ with my mother, and nobody was even thinking in these terms … At that moment, my mother did n’t know Carrie Fisher and I were smoking pot at all. He was even kind of hiding it from her. So it was a little bit of a revelation.

  5. Michael Tubbs:

    I think it will make people work better and smarter and harder and also be able to do things like spend time with their families because we're not robots. We're not just designed just to work all day and run a rat race.


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