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end-run

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verb

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Recent Examples of end run
Noun
Without the end run, a bid to be elected to a third term would directly contravene the Twenty-second Amendment. Michael Luo, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2025 And if other members of the management team are doing an end run around the CEO to get to the board, that could set off a leadership crisis. Harry Kraemer, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
Johnson earlier Wednesday morning urged GOP caucus members not to join Democrats in the procedural end-run around him. Garrett Downs, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2025 With a global start in excess of half a million, the sequel is on track to blow past the first film's global end-run of $1 billion. Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for end run
Recent Examples of Synonyms for end run
Noun
  • And by laying out his next big bet, Musk is essentially daring every other big tech company to call his bluff.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The land was a former family vineyard and cherry tree orchard -- an elevated site draped along a bend of high ridges and exposed bluffs that fall toward the water.
    Erik Matuszewski, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Somehow their petition—miraculously evading Confederate interception and traveling, via the Bahamas, to Washington—arrived on the Navy secretary’s desk, though they likely weren’t released until the end of the war.
    Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Edwards, who trains such police departments as the New York Police Department on drone threat mitigation, points to fiber-optic drones that can evade radio frequency detection systems as a particular concern.
    Anna Schecter, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Retrievers, initially bred for hunting, enjoy hiking and playing fetch, says Joey Morris, animal behaviorist and dog trainer at OverWatch K9 Academy.
    Taylor Grothe, Parents, 9 Feb. 2026
  • More than 15 pleas to adopt Valerio, showing him in playful postures such as playing fetch and posing in a sunflower hat, remain live on Instagram.
    Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • In Texas, wind, solar and storage provided about 25% of power for the grid's 27 million customers -- a major increase over 2021 and a key reason blackouts were largely avoided, said John Hensley, a senior vice president at the American Clean Power Association, an industry group.
    MATTHEW DALY, Arkansas Online, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Healey avoided answering the question, instead stating that Massachusetts officials tipped off the feds to the $7 million SNAP fraud scheme uncovered by Foley’s office in December.
    Tim Dunn, Boston Herald, 7 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • But the feint convinces almost no one, because Newsom is perhaps the least Falstaffian man in wine.
    Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
  • The novel does feint in this direction.
    Christopher Tayler, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • There were no sitters within that catalogue of misses — nothing toe-curling or likely to do a million views on YouTube — but his profligacy allowed Dortmund to escape with a 2-1 win.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • To escape Earth’s energy crunch, SpaceX is taking AI to orbit, where near-constant solar energy replaces Earth’s strained power grids.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Defense attorneys and prosecutors on Monday started picking the jurors who will decide whether a Wisconsin judge accused of helping a Mexican immigrant dodge federal officers committed a crime.
    CBS News, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Overshooting a dodge or whiffing a swing usually leads to contact damage, followed by an enemy attack, which will stun you for a few frames for them to reposition, causing even more contact damage as the foe decides to move through you.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Today’s staged raid reinforces our conviction that this investigation distorts French law, circumvents due process, and endangers free speech.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Hanging over Leonard’s All-Star selection is the ongoing league investigation related to the Aspiration situation, in which Leonard and the Clippers are accused of circumventing the NBA’s salary-cap rules.
    Law Murray, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026

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“End run.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/end%20run. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.

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