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run-through

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noun

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Recent Examples of run through
Verb
The shot is approved for use between 32 and 36 weeks of pregnancy during the RSV season, which typically starts in September and runs through January in the United States. Adrianna Rodriguez, USA Today, 26 June 2025 The Star Tours motion simulator in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland will close on Monday, June 30 for an extended refurbishment that will run through early August or longer. Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 26 June 2025
Noun
But on one run-through, he was shaken by a small mistake. Tom Roland, Billboard, 30 Apr. 2025 On the original, Braxton (on flute), the trumpeter Kenny Wheeler and the bassist Dave Holland align on an ingenious cyclical theme, tacking on one new phrase with each run-through, while the drummer Jerome Cooper adds fluttering texture. Hank Shteamer, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for run through
Recent Examples of Synonyms for run through
Verb
  • Steering column was pushed into his chest, broke his ribs, rib punctured his heart.
    Darlin Tillery, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 July 2025
  • Another teen girl was stabbed, her lung punctured, during the melee.
    Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 30 June 2025
Verb
  • Amos has led Aflac for 35 years and has spent more than five decades at the company his family founded.
    Glen Luke Flanagan, Fortune, 30 June 2025
  • Her son died six days later, on Thanksgiving Day, after spending nearly a week in a coma.
    Deborah Laverty, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Here are some of the other key points included in the CBA extension, based on a summary of the memorandum of understanding obtained by The Athletic.
    Pierre LeBrun, New York Times, 27 June 2025
  • The summary points above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists in the Miami Herald newsroom.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 June 2025
Verb
  • She was found on the ground near the lifeguard stand with an umbrella stake that had pierced the front of her left shoulder and was sticking out the back of her arm by about 1 foot, Asbury Park Fire Chief Kevin Keddy told ABC News.
    Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 25 June 2025
  • The scepter pierced the ground of the Huanacaure mountain, and so rose the glimmering empire of Cuzco.
    Ana Karina Zatarain, New Yorker, 21 June 2025
Verb
  • Most Americans, even many who support Trump, do not want to throw away the guardrails of our constitutional system.
    Kristina Becvar, Twin Cities, 25 June 2025
  • The problem is worst in affluent countries like the U.S., where more than two hundred pounds of food per person get thrown away each year.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • Both the former president and former first lady shared the same photo showing an outline of the two of them alongside Malia watching fireworks.
    Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 4 July 2025
  • Documents released last month about the approval of Moderna's new COVID-19 vaccine for only seniors ages 65 and older and others with at least one underlying condition down to age 12 outline a rationale similar to the one Prasad used in his decision about the Novavax shot.
    Nicole Brown Chau, CBS News, 3 July 2025
Verb
  • In 2010, a kayaker in the Florida Keys had her lung punctured when a fish leapt out of the water and stabbed her in the back.
    Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 30 June 2025
  • One such fatwa was the one issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the previous supreme leader, against author Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed multiple times at the Chautauqua Institution in southwestern New York in 2022.
    Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 30 June 2025
Verb
  • Premium frozen fruit, picked and frozen at peak ripeness, is often better than fresh fruit.
    Carolynn Carreño, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
  • These kids would be walking around down the road and the F.B.I. would pick them up and take them down to the jail to be interrogated, then tell them to walk home.
    Nick Estes, New Yorker, 26 June 2025

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“Run through.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/run%20through. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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