Thesaurus results for GUN FOR

gun (for)

verb

Definition of gun (for)

as in to run down

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As Caitlin Clark tried to steal the ball from Reese, Malonga came running down the paint.

— Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 26 July 2026
Schroeder mentioned another woman, 80, now an EVSA member, who was run down by an e-biker on April 16, 2024, shattering her leg, at the same location Jean was struck.

— Lincoln Anderson, New York Daily News, 25 July 2026

Definition of run down

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Two people were killed and at least five others were injured in a shooting at Seattle Center on Sunday night as the civic center complex hosted a major food festival.

— Dennis Romero, NBC news, 27 July 2026
On Saturday night, Fort Worth police shot and killed another suspect who pulled a gun on officers following a short car chase that ended near the I-35W service road on the city’s far south side, Garcia said.

— Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 July 2026

Definition of kill

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Van der Poel delivered the superhuman and curled up like a baby, suffering coursing through every nerve end.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 28 July 2026
Rolling out micro feedback opportunities creates a rhythm of sharing information which allows leadership and the core change team to course correct the strategic roadmap quickly.

— Kate Wieczorek, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

Definition of course

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Roughly 90% of foreign-exchange transactions involve the dollar; the alternatives — gold, Treasuries, the euro — trail far behind.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 July 2026
Chicago trailed 4-1 in the eighth before Sam Antonacci and Munetaka Murakami hit consecutive homers off Paul Blackburn to tie it.

— CBS News, CBS News, 30 July 2026

Definition of trail

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That evening, midnight-shift officers spotted the animal trotting on a residential street in the area and slowly pursued it in a patrol vehicle, some of which was shown in a short video clip the police department posted on social media Friday.

— Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 26 July 2026
That began changing in the second half of the 20th century as more women joined the workforce and pursued higher education.

— Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 26 July 2026

Definition of pursue

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Recently, a man from Lenexa was tracked using ALPR technology by the Lenexa Police Department after writing a guest commentary critical of the department for The Star, according to an investigation from KCUR.

— Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 26 July 2026
Based on data over the past month, the top five most popular models on OpenRouter, a platform that tracks data across AI models, were Chinese.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 July 2026

Definition of track

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