Excerpt from: the peach road race: a race like no other david matherne

despite not offering prize money for the first decade, (8) the race somehow got the best american runners the country had to offer.

in order to use more precise language, the capitalized phrase (8) should be changed to

a: the race amazingly lured
b: the race miraculously got
c: the race mysteriously enticed
d: the race phenomenally encouraged

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