RUNS (IN) Synonyms: 73 Similar and Opposite Words

runs in

verb

present tense third-person singular of run in

as in visits

to make a brief visit I just thought I'd run in and pick up my package

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as in arrests

to take or keep under one's control by authority of law if we catch you shoplifting again, we're going to run you in

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Recent Examples of runs in Prior to the ninth, Miami scored five runs in the first two innings against Phillies starter Zack Wheeler to take a 5-2 lead. — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 28 July 2026 The Braves next went to right-hander Tyler Kinley, who has given up eight homers and 18 runs in 36 innings pitched. — Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 27 July 2026 The Padres were the sixth club to score 20 runs in a game this season. — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2026 The Padres had only ever scored that many runs in a game six times before in their nearly 57 seasons as a big-league franchise. — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2026 The Cubs scored all 10 runs in the first four innings, while Imanaga allowed six hits and one walk in his longest outing since May 13 at Atlanta, also a seven-inning performance. — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026 The Royals scored five runs in the fifth, then added seven more in the seventh on their way to a 16-12 victory. — ABC News, 13 July 2026 Its sequels were mined for a beloved 1970s TV show, Little House on the Prairie, that still runs in syndication and will be rebooted on Netflix for a whole new generation in a series that premieres July 9. — Rosemary Counter, Vanity Fair, 6 July 2026 The Phillies fought back with two runs in the eighth to cut the lead to one run, but Rodriquez homered on a two-out pitch off reliever Chase Shugart in the ninth. — CBS News, 30 June 2026

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Chang's 77-year-old mother, Lien, receives SNAP aid, too, and visits two food banks each week.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 July 2026
Chang's 77-year-old mother, Lien, receives SNAP aid, too, and visits two different food banks each week.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 July 2026

Definition of visits

Verb

Keith arrests our thinking, and cons us into suppressing our critical faculties with the same kind of internalized surveillance that philosopher Michel Foucault broke down to describe a prison’s use of the panopticon in Discipline and Punish.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
Devlin throws a punch at Stone when the chief arrests him for drunken driving.

— Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026

Definition of arrests

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Wicked Wonderland comes over a decade after the original trilogy with Dove Cameron, Sofia Carson, Cameron Boyce and Booboo Stewart arrived on the Disney Channel in 2015.

— Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 22 July 2026
The latest escalation comes over a battle for the Strait of Hormuz.

— Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 15 July 2026

Definition of comes over

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Rhaenyra, queen of the Blacks, seizes the Iron Throne in King’s Landing with the support of Alicent, who has simply had enough of her unstable and terrible sons.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 13 July 2026
Trump seizes America’s 250th-birthday spotlight, headlining the Great American State Fair, hosting a UFC bout at the White House and promoting new passports, $250 bills and coins bearing his image.

— Will Weissert, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026

Definition of seizes

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The numbers across the city were a setback for Bass, who has made homelessness one of her signature issues and previously touted two straight years of drops in street homelessness.

— Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2026
Previous winners of this award have earned big moves off the back of the achievement, but others have suffered drops in form afterwards.

— Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 18 July 2026

Definition of drops in

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Where their routes diverge the van pulls in, next to a variety of vehicles, including bikes, single person robotaxis and more which are already waiting.

— Brad Templeton, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
The note pulls in the opposite direction of the clean-laundry fragrances that dominated recent fragrance cycles.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 12 June 2026

Definition of pulls in

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Kansas City is asking a judge to put control of a vacant former shopping mall that the city calls a nuisance into new hands.

— Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026
Wu, who studied the Walled City’s architecture in school, calls the setting a rare chance to build a mainstream action franchise around a genuinely singular piece of Hong Kong urban history.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 July 2026

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