runaway
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Abascal's eviction catalysed long-running anger about runaway housing costs.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
When thermal runaway starts, the process can continue for days, with the potential for batteries to release toxic gases such as hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen chloride and carbon monoxide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
In the remaining lore, myths recur of episodes of runaway planetary temperature changes, hot and cold, as well as a series of volcanic blasts that changed the globe.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Many Jeep-Ram dealers are on board with Stellantis’s new rules, believing they will curb runaway discounting and allow them to sell cars at higher prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Scoob stares at the ceiling, which seems lower than the previous night, his heartbeat chugging between his ears like a runaway train.
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
She also had a stuffed kitten named John Grady Cole, the hero’s name in McCarthy’s “The Border Trilogy,” which follows three runaways who have a stolen Colt revolver.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024
The runaways were safely shepherded back to their owner.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2023
For years after cousins Elsie Eldora Luscier and Carlotta Maria Sanchez disappeared from the Quinault Indian Reservation in August 1979, authorities thought they were runaways.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2023
Police said the boys were runaways from a residential care facility in San Dimas, which is about 46 miles east of Santa Monica.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 8, 2023
Quite often the masters and the overseers came back without the runaways.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
