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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'got ahead' is correct and usable in written English.
It's usually used to refer to achieving success or making progress in relation to other people who are competing with you in some way. Example sentence: Joe worked hard all summer and eventually got ahead of the other candidates, securing the job he wanted.
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got ahead
verb
Simple past tense of get ahead
Exact(57)
They got ahead".
He got ahead in counts.
Mo has got ahead of himself.
"They just got ahead of themselves".
He got ahead of me like he almost always does.
"I don't think we got ahead of ourselves.
Somehow or other he got ahead of himself or something.
We have got ahead of the curve and have credibility".
I got ahead on a few work projects.
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Once we got ahead, their heads certainly dropped.
The weather maps show that we just got ahead of another big storm system.
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