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run over

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verb (2)

as in to practice
to do over and over so as to become skilled let's run over this dance number one more time

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The bridge portion of the trail runs over I-5 to connect to the Sacramento River Bike trail that runs along the eastern side of the river. Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025 The international team ran over 250,000 computer simulations to test this ambitious hypothesis. Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025 Affan Kurniawan, the driver, had dropped his phone after being entangled with a crowd of protesters when a police vehicle ran over his body. Chad De Guzman, Time, 1 Sep. 2025 In 1996, a worker died in a motorcycle crash, and an art car ran over a tent, injuring occupants. Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for run (over)

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“Run (over).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/run%20%28over%29. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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