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rundown

[ruhn-doun] / ˈrʌnˌdaʊn /


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The rundown of the show was still unknown.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Below is a rundown of the executives making the trip and what could be at stake.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

Conviction List—Director’s Cut, an acclaimed rundown of Buy-rated stocks.

From Barron's • May 1, 2026

Engineers, lawyers and other emissaries of the U.S. oil industry have flocked to the heavily guarded hotel to pitch their Venezuelan counterparts on plans to revive the country’s rundown oil fields.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

The kitchen was in a rundown apartment in a clapboard house near the river, the kind with three stories and a rickety outside back staircase.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood




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