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Verb
Trump has set a July 9 deadline for imposing reciprocal tariffs, but trade talks have run into obstacles including discussions over duties on farm goods, steel and car parts.—Jennifer Cunningham, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 July 2025 Those who run won’t be schlepping all the political baggage that Newsom has to tote.
Such as?
Rampant homelessness.—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2025
Noun
Max Muncy, 22, had two hits with a run scored and driven in.—Sacbee.com, 5 July 2025 After a 13-game run with the Falcons, Mariota joined the Philadelphia Eagles for a season.—Justin Grasso, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
Verb
The pitching staff, once the best in the league, has given up 51 runs over the last seven games.—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 21 June 2025 This resulted in The Pickwick Papers, which ran over twenty months and was published in book form in 1837.—Kirsty McHugh, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Verb
The Black Knights run the highest percentage of run concepts using outside zone and man.—Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024 Founder Margiela retired in 2009, and the label was run by an anonymous team (one that for a time included Bottega Veneta creative director Matthieu Blazy) until Galliano’s appointment.—Lucy Maguire, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for run
The bill ultimately continues a generations-long Republican tendency to transfer wealth upward while abandoning working Americans.
Davis:
The wealth transfer Trump seeks is from government to taxpayers.
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Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 July 2025
Traits shape your willingness to try new things, your perception of effort, and your comfort level in different environments—making exercise a natural outlet for expressing these tendencies, said Matthew Sacco, PhD, a sports medicine psychologist at Cleveland Clinic.
Both Bazzano and Wells, however, hit the jackpot that afternoon, fishing a variety of water from the big lake to a small brook.
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Robeson Bailey,
Outdoor Life,
11 June 2025
The vast and varied network of the Camino de Santiago has been compared to a river system where small brooks join together to make streams, and those streams come together to make rivers that ‘flow’ to the cathedral.
Each canine’s sniffing behavior is tracked by sensors and algorithms that quantify subtle physiological cues, such as sniff duration, hesitation or posture.
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Sindhya Valloppillil,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
So far, the rally has been nearly uninterrupted, allowing MSFT to sustain short-term overbought conditions for an unusually long duration, but a new counter-trend signal from the DeMARK Indicators (denoted by the '13') suggests a short-term downturn may be imminent.
Meanwhile, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has been more reserved, declining to commit to measures requiring Trump to seek congressional authorization first.
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Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 July 2025
That was after Trevor’s mom had jumped through hoops to fill out the forms, seek a special exemption and get proper authorization from the insurer, just as Anthem representatives had told her.
Moreover, some leadership teams today have heightened security concerns, in addition to the challenge of acting as the face and key driver of an organization’s strategic direction.
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Michele Dobnikar,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
Art direction is led by Pawas Sawatchaiyamet (Monkey Man) and visual effects is headed by Lee Stringer (Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, Star Wars: Clone Wars).
While traversing steep mountain trails and navigating undulating bent grass greens at Cliffhangers, golfers will drive carts through cascading waterfalls, cross swift flowing creeks, and wind through a cave system.
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Erik Matuszewski,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
It is situated along a creek just off California State Route 2 in Angeles National Forest.
In that case, which stemmed from President Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship, the Supreme Court limited the use of universal injunctions in cases with individuals as plaintiffs, but gave lower courts more latitude in cases brought by states.
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Alexander Tin,
CBS News,
1 July 2025
The times and dates given apply to mid-northern latitudes.
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