runs after

phrase

present tense third-person singular of run after

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Recent Examples of runs after Tempe Tran continued his outstanding tournament with an RBI single in the fourth, and SVLL tacked on three more runs after Isaac Ramirez and Tran both scored on wild pitches. Dennis Pope, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026 Anthropic reviewed more than 141,000 cybersecurity evaluation runs after the Hugging Face disclosure and identified three cases in which its own Claude models reached real systems during cyber tests. Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 The Little League Softball run-rule ends a game when there is a 10-run margin after four innings, or 15 runs after three innings. Steve Gorches, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2026 Byron Buxton added a late sacrifice fly and scored two runs after missing four games with right hip impingement. ABC News, 4 July 2026 The Giants were trailing by five runs after Logan Webb pitched just three innings, and Gage’s goal was to get six outs. Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 4 July 2026

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“Runs after.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/runs%20after. Accessed 17 Aug. 2026.

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