runaway
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“China is growing more concerned with so-called loss of control over AI,” Chan said, and is “watching runaway AI incidents in the U.S. very closely, like the Hugging Face incident.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Indeed, careful readings of bond-market data suggest the rise in yields doesn’t spring entirely from fears about runaway inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
A runaway horse was chased by police on motorbikes in Santa Fe, New Mexico, when it escaped before a parade on 13 September.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
But the real understanding of women’s anger can be found in much earlier sources—ones possibly forgotten, if not for the runaway success of “The Odyssey.”
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026
Here she was, a young runaway with few resources.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
She also had a stuffed kitten named John Grady Cole, the hero’s name in McCarthy’s “The Border Trilogy,” which follows three runaways who have a stolen Colt revolver.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024
The runaways were safely shepherded back to their owner.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2023
For years after cousins Elsie Eldora Luscier and Carlotta Maria Sanchez disappeared from the Quinault Indian Reservation in August 1979, authorities thought they were runaways.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2023
Police said the boys were runaways from a residential care facility in San Dimas, which is about 46 miles east of Santa Monica.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 8, 2023
So they sometimes make the runaways serve in their army before they be truly free.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
