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Von Mierers, intimately engaged with both the Manhattan club scene and Wall Street, was fated to run across Mr. Richards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

The witness described how the young children and other bystanders had "run across the road" in panic.

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

AI is also fundamentally changing how some advertisers create the ads that run across Meta-owned sites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

Every once in a while she will run across an item or article asking the question: “Whatever happened to Jane Kaczmarek?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

I turned around and began a clumsy run across the field in a line which avoided his house and aimed toward the road leading back into the town.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles




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