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leave in the dust

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leave someone/something in the dust
1. to move quickly away from someone or something. If a big truck bears down on you from behind, this powerful car can leave it in the dust.
2. to replace someone or something with something new. This new computer virus left last year's killer virus in the dust.
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The fast moves also leave in the dust the current theory of how such transfers take place, he and his FOM colleague Sander Woutersen, now at the Max Born Institute in Berlin, conclude in the Dec.
 
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