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run

[ruhn] / rʌn /












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"We've got to run the investigation, find out what happened exactly. We're in the midst of that at the moment. No decisions will be made until after that."

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

That left Wembanyama one flagrant foul away from an automatic suspension and the Knicks seized upon the moment of Spurs hesitation to mount a 13-0 scoring run.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

He warned “these frontier models would be expensive to run, constrained by physical bottlenecks and vulnerable to unrealistic expectations of frictionless deployment cost.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

And on Sunday, the festival will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and will include broadcasts of Germany vs.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

I still haven’t brought up Sunridge, and now I’ve run out of time to talk to him.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam




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