run across
verb
ran across; run across; running across; runs across
: to meet with or discover by chance
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The offense squandered a quality start from Seth Lugo, who didn’t allow a run across seven innings.
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Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 21 Apr. 2026
The baby bawled, the women and girls tiptoed, and at last Lina and the Brown family reached the ground and ran across the street.
—Danielle Parker, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
In June, a video captured a farmworker running across an Oxnard field while being chased by immigration agents.
—Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
One of them, Carlos Roberto Montoya Valdéz, ran across the nearby freeway in a desperate attempt to escape.
—Adrian Florido, NPR, 16 Apr. 2026
Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Nolan McLean gave up only one run each in two fantastic pitching performances, but the Dodgers managed to push a run across in the top of the eighth to take a lead.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 15 Apr. 2026
Chew was 7-for-7 and drove in five runs across wins over The King’s Academy and Hollister.
—Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026
Major disparities in prescription rates run across racial, economic and geographic boundaries, April 2025 research found, even to the point some Americans are cooking their own GLP-1 drugs at home to cut costs.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
Giuliano Simeone was favourite to get to the ball and cleverly arced his run across the path of Cubarsi, who had been too slow to spot the danger.
—Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
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Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 21 Apr. 2026
The baby bawled, the women and girls tiptoed, and at last Lina and the Brown family reached the ground and ran across the street.
—Danielle Parker, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
In June, a video captured a farmworker running across an Oxnard field while being chased by immigration agents.
—Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
One of them, Carlos Roberto Montoya Valdéz, ran across the nearby freeway in a desperate attempt to escape.
—Adrian Florido, NPR, 16 Apr. 2026
Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Nolan McLean gave up only one run each in two fantastic pitching performances, but the Dodgers managed to push a run across in the top of the eighth to take a lead.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 15 Apr. 2026
Chew was 7-for-7 and drove in five runs across wins over The King’s Academy and Hollister.
—Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026
Major disparities in prescription rates run across racial, economic and geographic boundaries, April 2025 research found, even to the point some Americans are cooking their own GLP-1 drugs at home to cut costs.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
Giuliano Simeone was favourite to get to the ball and cleverly arced his run across the path of Cubarsi, who had been too slow to spot the danger.
—Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
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“Run across.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/run%20across. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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