runaway
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Ohtani was considered the runaway MVP favorite early in the year, while his pitching performance also put him in the Cy Young conversation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Type Ia supernovae are extremely bright explosions that are generally believed to occur when a white dwarf becomes unstable and undergoes a runaway thermonuclear reaction.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 both lost around 1%, while worries about runaway artificial-intelligence spending by big tech companies dragged the Nasdaq composite down more than 2%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing, a 2023 memoir by former courier Hu Anyan, became a runaway bestseller in China and also captured media attention abroad.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
The police and social workers told Danny that Pili was a runaway, but he knew his sister wouldn’t leave him behind.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
A database by the Texas Runaway Slave Project, which found listings for 2,500 runaways across various Texas newspapers from the 1840s through the 1860s, also documents the frequented journey to Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
The runaways were safely shepherded back to their owner.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2023
But despite those reports, deputies routinely returned runaways to their schools without effectively investigating or reporting concerns to state welfare workers.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 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
So they sometimes make the runaways serve in their army before they be truly free.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
