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Recent Examples of end run
The Editors, National Review, 4 Apr. 2025
Another way to do an end run around sodium is to get your crunch from veggies, which get extra points for also providing heart-healthy potassium.
—Michael Merschel/ American Heart Association News, Boston Herald, 9 Feb. 2025
Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
To some, pouring private dollars into nonprofits that mobilize voters and build movements seems like an end-run around laws limiting tax-exempt organizations’ ability to get involved in politics.
—Alex Daniels, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2024
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Noun
This is a desperate attempt to do an end run around the French people.
—The Editors, National Review, 4 Apr. 2025
Another way to do an end run around sodium is to get your crunch from veggies, which get extra points for also providing heart-healthy potassium.
—Michael Merschel/ American Heart Association News, Boston Herald, 9 Feb. 2025
Verb
Large Chinese banks tightened transactions with Russia in response to sanctions pressures, but at the same time numerous Chinese cut-outs and smaller banks became involved in creating ways to end-run them.
—Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
To some, pouring private dollars into nonprofits that mobilize voters and build movements seems like an end-run around laws limiting tax-exempt organizations’ ability to get involved in politics.
—Alex Daniels, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for end run
Noun
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Though the California ground squirrel is native to the area, its burrowing can contribute to coastal erosion, especially along the bluffs above Pacific Coast Highway.—
Ruben Vives,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2025
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Based on their clothing, people likely gathered after church on a Sunday and posed on these bluffs above the once free-flowing White River.—
Ray Hanley,
Arkansas Online,
10 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Engineered to evade interception by U.S. defenses such as THAAD, the missile presents a direct challenge to Western military dominance and poses a potential threat to regional allies like Israel.—
Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 May 2025
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Vita's Ukrainian mother (my grandmother) survived as an orphan for two years under German occupation and barely evaded being carted off to Germany to work as a forced laborer.—
Sasha Vasilyuk,
Time,
8 May 2025
Noun
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This can be achieved through long walks, running, taking them along for bike rides, and of course, long games of fetch.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 May 2025
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Somehow the flames skipped over a patch of grass next door, giving Quincy the perfect spot for a game of fetch while Risa and her team begin work.—
David Wharton,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Make sure to maintain an upright torso and avoid leaning forward or backward.—
Laura Schober,
Health,
13 May 2025
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The policy is based in part on concerns over maintaining the integrity of the proceedings, avoiding media influence over jurors or witnesses, and protecting the privacy of individuals involved.—
Kate Nalepinski,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 May 2025
Noun
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Jose Ramirez Breakdown Ramirez uses level changes and feints to set up his positioning and range and to pick up on the tendencies of his opponents.—
Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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To his supporters, the bluff and feints were all tactics of a master negotiator taking on the world’s trade cheats.—
Laurent Belsie,
Christian Science Monitor,
11 Apr. 2025
Verb
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An Army spokesman on Thursday confirmed that two inmates tried to escape late last month.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
9 May 2025
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Though their time together was fleeting, her daughter Teresa, who is going to unintentionally enter the same dangerous environment her mother once escaped, will live with the effects.—
Sixteen Ramos,
USA Today,
9 May 2025
Noun
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That ethical dodge — congratulating modern progress, ignoring this era’s nervous breakdown — is the basic, political, insensitive reason that contemporary Hollywood cannot create love stories.—
Armond White,
National Review,
25 Apr. 2025
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Rannells, who reprises his role as Stephanie's friend Darren, made headlines when promoting Another Simple Favor with an amusing dodge to a question hinting at Lively's legal dramas.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
1 May 2025
Verb
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Chinese producers looked to expand trade to Southeast Asia and other regions to circumvent the U.S. tariffs.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
13 May 2025
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As promised, High Commander Wharton (Josh Charles) has closed Jezebel's, circumventing the rebellion's plot to massacre Gilead's most unsavory leaders.—
Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
6 May 2025
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“End run.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/end%20run. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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