Thesaurus results for GUNS (FOR)

guns (for)

verb

present tense third-person singular of gun (for)

as in runs down

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The Reds rallied from three runs down in the eighth inning after White Sox starter Sean Burke allowed only one run on three hits in seven innings.

— CBS News, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
Blood runs down Zack’s chin before his parents swear to tell the truth.

— JP Mangalindan, Time, 31 July 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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Airstrike in Gaza kills a 4-year-old Four-year-old Mohammed Taha died after an Israeli airstrike hit a house in central Gaza on Sunday, hospital authorities said.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2026
Giving a mother who kills preferential treatment harkens to the patronizing assumption that women lack agency.

— Dr. Susan Hatters Friedman, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026

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At the break, Bangladesh trails Australia by 107 runs with captain Najmul Hossain Shanto unbeaten on 23 and Mushfiqur Rahim on four.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Aug. 2026
Kimbrel trails only Mariano Rivera (652), Trevor Hoffman (601), Kenley Jansen (492) and Lee Smith (478) on the all-time list.

— Sam Blum, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of trails

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The story tracks a Chinese chef who moves to the Middle East to clear family debts by running a restaurant, only to see the venue become a community refuge when armed conflict breaks out across the region.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 Aug. 2026
Automatic version history tracks changes for up to one year, providing access to earlier versions of the file.

— StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 23 Aug. 2026

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