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as in to lead
to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction the road runs along the river for a while

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as in to vary
to occur within a continuous range of variation the electric bill runs between 30 and 50 dollars a month

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as in to tend
to show a liking or proneness (for something) unfortunately, members of his family run to fatness

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as in to drive
to urge, push, or force onward they ran the horses hard in order to get to the ranch quickly

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as in to operate
to control the mechanical operation of I know how to run that machine

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as in to become
to eventually have as a state or quality the poor woman ran herself ragged trying to care for all those children

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as in to melt
to go from a solid to a liquid state her makeup started to run when she got in the pool

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as in to cost
to have a price of that sort of computer runs at least several hundred dollars

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noun

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as in tendency
a prevailing or general movement or inclination the company's stock has remained consistent with the overall run of the market

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as in duration
the period during which something exists, lasts, or is in progress the actor has been assigned the part for the run of the show

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runs plural abnormally frequent intestinal evacuations with more or less fluid stools with weekend guests in the house, it was no time to get the runs

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Recent Examples of run
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Plus, those two categories have two additional Turbo Days: May 20 and May 26, with the latter Turbo Day running until 5:30 p.m. PT (30 minutes into the show). Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 23 Apr. 2025 Amazon is currently running its Amazon Book Sale, April 23 – 28. Christopher Murray, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2025
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Morikawa, Lee and Joaquin Niemann teed off at 9:47 a.m. Thursday, beginning a run of high-profile groups. CBS News, 10 Apr. 2025 In February, Smith announced a run of European, U.K., and U.S. tour dates in support of the 50th anniversary of Horses. Tyler Jenke, Billboard, 10 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for run
Recent Examples of Synonyms for run
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  • Former President Bill Clinton — aside from famously jogging to McDonald’s — Bush, and Obama were all relatively healthy presidents.
    Haisten Willis, The Washington Examiner, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Miller suffered a traumatic brain injury during a mission gone wrong in 2006, and Mendoza aimed to help jog his memory by re-creating their heroic survival story.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2025
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  • Fellow dictatorships including Russia, China, North Korea, Cuba, and Iran lined up behind Maduro while Gonzalez fled the country during the reign of state terror against dissidents that followed the election.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 20 Apr. 2025
  • The conflict has forced 12.4 million people to flee their homes and seek safety either elsewhere in Sudan or across the border, including more than half of whom are children (including nearly a third under five).
    Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
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  • Kendrick Lamar leads the pack with 10 total nominations in eight categories.
    Bryan West, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The health secretary also hired David Geier, a figure previously criticized for treating autistic children with puberty-blocking drugs, to lead a federal study on the causes of autism.
    Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
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  • All have varying levels of stability and solubility.
    Rosa Jisoo Pyo, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Freckles are a single shade of brown, but ones that are cause for concern can vary with multiple shades of tan, brown, black, red, white or blue.
    Hannah Yasharoff, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
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  • The liquor flows so freely that the rest room nearly becomes a vomitorium.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The rich sat on deck while the poor were squeezed in the hold below, with no place to relieve themselves, so excrement, vomit, and other wastes flowed down into the lower areas.
    Lauren Vuong, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2025
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  • In the years since, the vehicles raced on tracks across the world have evolved.
    Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Twisted Metal is racing toward its return to Peacock for Season 2, and the streamer has finally revealed when episodes will become available.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 17 Apr. 2025
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  • The sector’s blue chips tend to be overcrowded, which is a recipe for limited yields.
    Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • His shorter throws tend to come out wobbly, something that presented itself during his pro day, and that’s a concern for teams that run a lot of quick timing routes.
    Jeff Howe, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
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  • The Ontario Home Builders’ Association warned last month that tariffs and counter-tariffs on steel and aluminum products would likely drive up the costs of construction materials, making building and buying new homes more expensive, worsening the housing affordability issue.
    Hira Humayun, CNN Money, 20 Apr. 2025
  • The study found a 6% annual decline, driven by poaching, habitat loss and weak law enforcement.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025

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“Run.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/run. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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