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Recent Examples of end run
Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 22 Apr. 2025
With the aid of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team, Trump appears to be attempting an end run that could succeed where his past attempts failed: by simply terminating the consulting contract that the Department of Energy relies on to develop and enforce the rules.
—Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2025
Sophie Clark, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
To prevent the government from using Section 702 as an end-run around these constitutional and statutory requirements, Congress included two key provisions in the law.
—Elizabeth Goitein, Foreign Affairs, 6 June 2023
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Noun
This is an end run around regulations that are on the books today.
—Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 22 Apr. 2025
With the aid of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team, Trump appears to be attempting an end run that could succeed where his past attempts failed: by simply terminating the consulting contract that the Department of Energy relies on to develop and enforce the rules.
—Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2025
Verb
The federal administration is proposing an end-run that ignores the hard lessons of the past.
—Sophie Clark, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
To prevent the government from using Section 702 as an end-run around these constitutional and statutory requirements, Congress included two key provisions in the law.
—Elizabeth Goitein, Foreign Affairs, 6 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for end run
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The key is credibility; both paths must be real, not just a bluff.—
Ankit Aggarwal,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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The season finale of Sirens picks up at the hospital after Ethan, intoxicated and heartbroken, fell off the bluff on Michaela and Peter’s property.—
Francesca Gariano,
People.com,
24 May 2025
Verb
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Last year, the Russians began including decoy drones with their Shahed drones to increase the likelihood of evading Ukrainian defenses.—
Vikram Mittal,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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Cochran drove in a manner that indicated to Taylor that the sheriff was trying to evade him, Welch said.—
Joe Marusak,
Charlotte Observer,
28 June 2025
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Screenshots from a June 26 TikTok video of a silver Labrador continuing to play fetch despite losing her vision a few months prior.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 July 2025
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This could be an extra long walk or a few more rounds of fetch.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
4 July 2025
Verb
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Without an aisle, the box occupants must seat themselves in order from front to back to avoid climbing over one another.—
Judith Martin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 June 2025
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Don’t say Discovery The language in the Senate bill avoids any mention of the Smithsonian, Space Center Houston, Discovery, or even the space shuttle.—
Robert Pearlman,
ArsTechnica,
30 June 2025
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Still, the film thankfully skirts the edge of any dismaying tropes and instead pays off his various noble feints.—
Maureen Lee Lenker Published,
EW.com,
30 June 2025
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Body feints are still part of Messi’s late-career repertoire, as well.—
Felipe Cardenas,
New York Times,
14 June 2025
Verb
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Police on Friday captured one of the New Orleans parish inmates who escaped six weeks ago in a jailbreak Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry called the worst in recent state history.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 June 2025
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Whenever the lovers escape the family’s attention, the lighting designer Isabella Byrd throws deep shadows over their sometimes naked forms, turning their bodies into lubricious, moving Caravaggios.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
26 June 2025
Noun
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Dark Souls’ plodding sword-and-board combat disappeared in favor of a lightning fast rhythm of slashes, bullets, and dodges.—
Luke Winkie,
Vulture,
1 Apr. 2025
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The film is notable for a dodge ball scene that goes disgustingly awry, a long gay kiss — an unheard-of smooch in 1981 — between Andrew and a bully, and for Arngrim’s goth-twink fabulous costumes, including the silkiest cape.—
Erik Piepenburg,
New York Times,
2 June 2025
Verb
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The case highlighted how independent voices can circumvent the gatekeeping position of corporate media and rally the public.—
Tom Blakely,
Boston Herald,
27 June 2025
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There’s no surefire way to keep AI companies from scraping news websites; even the Robots Exclusion Protocol, the standard opt-out method available to news publishers, is easily circumvented.—
Alex Reisner,
The Atlantic,
25 June 2025
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