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runaway

[ruhn-uh-wey] / ˈrʌn əˌweɪ /


NOUN
person who is trying to escape
Synonyms


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This gets to the core of the matter: AI is driving runaway demand for processors like those Nvidia makes, but they would be paperweights without memory, so demand there is going bananas, too.

From Barron's

After the Cuyahoga River was badly damaged by runaway industrialization, its multidecade cleanup effort required new technologies to monitor and remediate its water quality.

From The Wall Street Journal

"That indicates the mechanism changed from dehydration embrittlement to thermal runaway."

From Science Daily

As the stolen material builds up, it can ignite in a runaway nuclear reaction, triggering a sudden brightening in the sky.

From Science Daily

Now, after her team’s runaway 97-61 victory over Penn State on Wednesday inside Rec Hall, Close glanced at the 10 reporters on a Zoom call and doubled down on her previous remarks.

From Los Angeles Times