run up
Example Sentences
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Yet, there are also signs that prices have run up too far, too fast.
He ran up debts, plundered her money and spun a story about a blackmailer from prison coming for them.
From BBC
Nasdaq will have a harder time running up its IPO count next year, under the listing rules it adopted this month.
From Barron's
Later that day, a lady from Tahiti ran up to me in Central Park and exclaimed: “I didn’t realize Harrison Ford was so young!”
"In the run up to Christmas, consumers have really pulled back on spending because they were very nervous, particularly pre-Budget in November," she told the BBC.
From BBC
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