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Recent Examples of runway
The new auteurs of the 1990s reflected a broader shift in tone across the culture toward something scruffier and more disillusioned—the cinematic equivalent of Nirvana on the radio and Marc Jacobs’s Perry Ellis grunge collection on the runway.
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Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 19 Mar. 2026
For someone with a clear runway of working years ahead, the Roth’s tax-free growth and withdrawal structure often presents a compelling case.
—Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 18 Mar. 2026
These caps could eliminate the secret runway to uncontrollable superhuman capabilities while still allowing beneficial AI development.
—J. Xavier Prochaska, Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2026
Stylists competed for dresses; stars were more likely to wear looks straight off the runway; and a surprising number of actresses still bought their own gowns — and were even proud of it.
—Merle Ginsberg, HollywoodReporter, 18 Mar. 2026
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Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 19 Mar. 2026
For someone with a clear runway of working years ahead, the Roth’s tax-free growth and withdrawal structure often presents a compelling case.
—Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 18 Mar. 2026
These caps could eliminate the secret runway to uncontrollable superhuman capabilities while still allowing beneficial AI development.
—J. Xavier Prochaska, Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2026
Stylists competed for dresses; stars were more likely to wear looks straight off the runway; and a surprising number of actresses still bought their own gowns — and were even proud of it.
—Merle Ginsberg, HollywoodReporter, 18 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for runway
Noun
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Smaller unmanned aircraft don’t need a military airstrip to launch.—
Bill McKibben,
New Yorker,
18 Mar. 2026
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Troops would need to collect the material from several places, secure an airstrip near each, truck or helicopter the equipment and material to and from the strip, and defend against attacks on the preparations and shipments.—
Matthew Bunn,
The Conversation,
17 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Magen David Adom, Israel's rescue service, released video showing a large crater in a street and shrapnel damage to an apartment building.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Mar. 2026
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At the spring 2026 collections last September and October, runway fantasies like bows and face paint seeped right off the runways and into the streets.—
Irene Kim,
Vogue,
16 Mar. 2026
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This dimension of the work was heightened by its site, a former helicopter landing field on an old NATO base, given over to the Autostrada Biennale in 2014 as part of a process of demilitarization in the aftermath of the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s and Kosovo’s declaration of independence in 2008.—
Joanna Warsza,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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The teens were evaluated by medical personnel at a landing field before they were released, rescuers said.—
Brooke Baitinger,
Sacbee.com,
26 June 2025
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The Chancellor Gordon Brown reacted by cutting duty on ultra-low sulphur petrol, freezing duty on other grades of motor fuel, putting more vehicles into the lowest vehicle excise duty band — a tax cut for most lorries — and taxing foreign truckers using British roads.—
Ian King,
CNBC,
18 Mar. 2026
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The road is closed from exit 1A to I-35 North in Overland Park.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
17 Mar. 2026
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Let the mind be, along with countless other things, a landing strip for sacred visitations.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Mar. 2026
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Without concerted effort, areas like kitchen counters and bathroom sinks can easily turn into landing strips for everything from setting spray to immersion blenders, Bergman explains.—
Caroline Lubinsky,
Martha Stewart,
29 Jan. 2026
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That plan describes a roadway overmatched by the Treasure Valley’s western spread — what was essentially a rural highway to market now swallowed by cities.—
Mark Dee
March 17,
Idaho Statesman,
17 Mar. 2026
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Drivers were asked to avoid South Watt Avenue and Jackson Road, with roadways in the area expected to remain closed for several hours as authorities investigated at the scene.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
17 Mar. 2026
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This blocks vehicle traffic, leaving only one lane for drivers heading to the bridge leading to Port Miami's cruise ships.—
Larry Seward,
CBS News,
20 Mar. 2026
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In the Austin-area crash, the Waymo was traveling northwest on a highway in January when a raccoon ran into the roadway from the left side and entered the Waymo’s lane of travel.—
Andrea Guzmán,
Austin American Statesman,
19 Mar. 2026
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The architecture of Pride Cleaners stands in stark contrast to Chatham’s bungalows and courtyard apartments and the classical revival ornamentation of 79th Street’s commercial thoroughfare.—
Elizabeth Blasius,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Mar. 2026
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The triptych is along the wall in a main thoroughfare of the museum facing the floor-to-ceiling windows that form part of the building’s bridge over Wilshire Boulevard.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Mar. 2026
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“Runway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/runway. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.
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