Thesaurus results for GUNS (FOR)

guns (for)

verb

present tense third-person singular of gun (for)

as in runs down

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Although bullying usually runs down the chain of power – for example, from a boss to an employee – grade bullying flips that.

— Jason Walker, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2026
The Brewers clawed back from four runs down and yet again proved why this team loves playing from behind.

— Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of runs down

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What could be a stock campus ice-queen role is subverted throughout the season, through the empathy for the character that courses through her performance.

— Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 27 July 2026
The same love of equality and freedom that courses through the Declaration motivated her white great-grandmother to campaign for suffrage and her African American grandfather to found a chapter of the NAACP in the Jim Crow South.

— Michael Kazin, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026

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Selena is offended, and splashes him with the liquid, which burns and kills him.

— William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2026
The deadliest form of skin cancer, melanoma, kills more than 8,000 Americans a year and in Connecticut, nearly 900 people will be diagnosed each year.

— Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of kills

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Republican Senator Dan Sullivan, the incumbent, trails her with 119,357—or 47 percent—of all votes.

— Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Nov. 2026
The stock has gained 7% this quarter, outperforming the broader market, even as its roughly flat performance for the year trails the S&P 500's 11% advance.

— Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of trails

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In IconArrows pointing outwards CappThesis The following chart tracks NDX drawdowns from 52-week highs going back to just after the financial crisis.

— Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 13 Nov. 2026
DownDetector, which tracks user reports of service issues globally, showed that connectivity losses peaked Thursday afternoon and dropped off substantially by Friday morning.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 13 Nov. 2026

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