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run out

[ruhn-out] / ˈrʌnˌaʊt /


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The result is a wide range of forecasts but a narrower conclusion: Iran hasn’t run out of storage yet, but it is increasingly having to create more of it.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

It’s also apparent toward the end — when “Boosters” seems to run out of either money or time — that the camera framing gets uncomfortably tight.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

Yet once the market’s supply buffers run out, the market “stops trading headlines and starts trading outright supply exhaustion, and that is when oil could move sharply higher very quickly,” Innes told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026

The government says it has run out of diesel and fuel oil needed to power the generators that supplement the electricity production of its dilapidated power plants.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

I run out of the cabin to see for myself.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone




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