RAN ON Synonyms: 105 Similar and Opposite Words

ran on

verb

past tense of run on

as in chatted

to engage in casual or rambling conversation we were just running on about how neither of us has aged a bit after all these years

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Relevance

as in remained

to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state allow the savings account to run on for now

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as in went on

to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point she's very sweet, but she does tend to run on

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Recent Examples of ran on The model will handle document-review tasks that previously ran on Claude. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026 Paramount+ is also streaming all eight episodes of the first season, which ran on BET+ and BET previously, free on their YouTube channel. — Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 31 July 2026 The 2022 World Cup, the clearest expression of the strategy, ran on migrant labor whose reforms the International Labour Organization called real and whose enforcement Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said lagged. — Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026 Platner ran on a progressive platform centered on affordability, universal health care and getting corporate money and influence out of politics. — Saige Miller, NPR, 10 July 2026 El-Sayed ran on a Sanders-esque populist platform, including a call for single-payer health care and to raise the minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour. — Jason Zengerle, New Yorker, 10 July 2026 The former hedge fund manager ran on a progressive platform, promising to slash electricity bills by 25%, build 1 million new homes and rollout single-payer health insurance. — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 9 June 2026 Koch left office in 1989, after losing his campaign for an unprecedented fourth term to David Dinkins, who ran on the promise of easing racial tensions. — Kevin Lozano, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026 The Musical’ The cartoon character Betty Boop from the 1930s takes the spotlight of a stage musical that ran on Broadway in 2025. — Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for ran on

Verb

Many of the players Fleury chatted with during preseason games, though, won’t be counted on often during the regular season.

— Andrew Destin, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
At the end of the night, guests chatted about where the afterparty was, as amfAR eschewed hosting one this year.

— Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of chatted

Verb

Inflation has remained sticky and above central-bank targets over the past year, making further policy tightening unsurprising, according to the UBS CEO.

— Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026
Anyway, Evelyn appeared to be listening attentively to Jack, though her eyes remained glued to the stage.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of remained

Verb

The Scene The Bayeux Tapestry, which went on display in the British Museum this week, is one of the wonders of the medieval world.

— Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 11 Sep. 2026
As the night went on, the focus shifted to music, with a performance by 070 Shake, followed by Fcukers, and Papi Juice closed things out with a DJ set.

— Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of went on

Verb

The voters who crowded into community halls, courthouses and a university lecture hall talked openly about Newsom’s presidential ambitions, even as Democrats try to keep the focus on November’s midterm elections.

— Steve Peoples, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2026
The Wall Street Journal reported last month that Trump talked to Warsh repeatedly, a report publicly backed by several of his aides.

— Steve Liesman, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of talked

Verb

Much of it captures a version of Karrahbooo who was watching her career sit still while the conversation around her continued without her.

— Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2026
But armed conflicts between citizens of Missouri and the Kansas territory had started years earlier and continued into the Civil War.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of continued

Verb

Cars lined the streets looking for parking spots as people rambled through the bustling marketplace at Clock Tower Landing.

— Kendrick Calfee June 6, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2026
When asked simple questions by William Savitt, one of the attorneys representing OpenAI, Musk rambled and avoided the issue at hand.

— Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 18 May 2026

Definition of rambled

Verb

Hemingway commended Salinger, then a twenty-five-year-old staff sergeant, on his short stories, and the two conversed for hours.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026
For a moment, two referees from the Falcons’ seventh training camp practice looked at each other, conversed and truly didn’t know what to rule.

— Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of conversed

Verb

The sport previously competed just shy of 19 miles north of Madrid, at Circuito del Jarama, and F1’s tenure at that track lasted from 1968 to 1981, though four of those years were spent at Montjuïc Circuit in Barcelona.

— Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
This inaugurated the transatlantic African slave trade, which lasted until 1808, when it was banned by Congress.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026