Thesaurus results for GUNS (FOR)

guns (for)

verb

present tense third-person singular of gun (for)

as in runs down

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Blood runs down Zack’s chin before his parents swear to tell the truth.

— JP Mangalindan, Time, 31 July 2026
Neighbors say when storms hit, water runs down the parking lot on one side, off the road on another, and down a slope in the back.

— Dan Snyder, CBS News, 29 July 2026

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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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Agent Orange is a powerful chemical that kills weeds and acts as a defoliant, which the military used during the war in Vietnam to clear dense jungle and destroy food crops.

— Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 10 Aug. 2026
In retaliation for Kanan murdering her father Marvin (London Brown), Jukebox (Hailey Kilgrove) kills Raq, the woman who raised her.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 8 Aug. 2026

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Although that grade trails many Australian deposits, the mine remains one of China’s most strategically important mineral assets because of its unique mix of critical minerals.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 7 Aug. 2026
Even so, the Galaxy Watch 9's battery life trails that of competing smartwatches.

— Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026

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The Great Lakes’ piping plover population reached an all-time low of about 13 pairs in the 1980s after habitat loss due to beach development, according to Chicago Piping Plovers, which tracks the birds.

— Finnegan Belleau, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2026
This measure tracks swings in a broad collection of business output of goods and services, adjusted for inflation.

— Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 9 Aug. 2026

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