guns (for)

verb

present tense third-person singular of gun (for)
as in runs down

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  1. runs down
  2. courses
  3. kills
  4. trails
  5. tracks
Verb
  • 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
Definition of courses
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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
Verb
  • Their median compensation trails that of white and Asian employees.
    — Aldrin Rafael Bonilla, New York Daily News, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Sullivan trails Peltola by roughly 600 votes, according to the AP.
    — Washington Post, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of trails
Verb
  • Behind the scenes, the Control Room tracks all flights, delays, arrivals, and departures.
    — Lauren Harano, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2026
  • The project tracks refinement and LoRA training and writes that usage into image metadata.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of tracks
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“Guns (for).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guns%20%28for%29. Accessed 8 Nov. 2026.

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