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ran

verb as in operate, drive

verb as in continue, range

verb as in attempt to be elected to public office

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When finally she ran out of the henhouse with the exciting news, her mother did not scold her but patiently listened to her daughter’s account of her first scientific observation.

The following month, a gray pickup pulled into an alley that ran behind Harutyunyan’s house in North Hills.

Sue Fish, who was temporary chief constable of Nottinghamshire Police and previously ran misconduct hearings, reviewed Panorama's footage and said the sergeant's sexualised comments were "completely inappropriate, very misogynistic".

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Silver said that he sold an RV park in Wilmington nearly five years ago and that there was “no crime” when he ran it.

They argued that the then-president had strayed from the environmental promises he made when he ran for election, such as by approving a massive oil drilling project on the North Slope of Alaska.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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