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rundown

[ruhn-doun] / ˈrʌnˌdaʊn /


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Here is a rundown of what's been introduced so far.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

He highlighted their work with a rundown of the best jokes he nixed during his hosting run.

From Salon • Mar. 9, 2026

He lives in a company-owned apartment full of dark, polished surfaces and bad modern art; she lives in a rundown apartment furnished with termites.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

Here’s a rundown of the six best-places lists in the U.S. and the two global ones:

From MarketWatch • Feb. 4, 2026

Irwin lived in a murky, comfortable basement apartment in one of the rundown streets of outer Cambridge and drove me there—for a beer, he said—after three cups of bitter coffee in a student cafe.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath