Thesaurus results for GUNS (FOR)

guns (for)

verb

present tense third-person singular of gun (for)

as in runs down

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After Hurtado-Cariaco runs down the block, the agents get back into their vehicles.

— Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
In our latest Set a VIBE edition, our June 2026 cover star runs down the songs that send his audience into full mosh pit mayhem.

— Christine Imarenezor, VIBE.com, 13 July 2026

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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
And about the obsession that courses through dozens of countries on the continent.

— Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 3 June 2026

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There is also evidence, both Moss and Saphire note, that measles kills immune system memory cells when infecting someone without vaccine-induced or natural immunity.

— Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2026
Odysseus reveals who is really is, and with the help of Telemachus, kills all the suitors in a breakneck fight to the death.

— Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 18 July 2026

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McLaren sits in third place, 163 points behind Mercedes, while Red Bull trails in fourth, 207 points back.

— Yara Elshebiny, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
On top of that, Messi now trails Mbappé by two goals in this year’s Golden Boot race and one goal in the all-time World Cup list.

— Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 18 July 2026

Definition of trails

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No federal agency tracks the practice, so researchers have relied on estimates.

— Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 July 2026
Rush is now director of the Red Line for Civil Rights at Democracy Forward, a nonprofit group that tracks the division’s activities.

— Ben Wieder, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026

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