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running after

ADJECTIVE
coming
Synonyms
STRONGEST
anticipated expected forthcoming impending subsequent
STRONG
advancing aspiring close converging deserving docking due fated foreseen future instant marked near nearing oncoming ordained predestined preparing progressing pursuing
WEAK
about to happen almost on one at hand certain drawing near en route eventual gaining upon getting near immediate imminent in prospect in store in the offing in the wind in view next nigh prospective to-be up-and-coming
Antonyms
STRONGEST
distant
STRONG
away far gone past

Example Sentences

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With Rangers now arithmetically out of the running after three consecutive losses, it is down to Hearts and defending champions Celtic.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

O’Brien eventually makes it to the Oscars stage, with the children still running after him.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2026

It and its leader Domingos Simoes Pereira, who only recently returned from exile, were disqualified from running after the Supreme Court ruled their legislative and presidential applications had been submitted after the deadline.

From Barron's • Nov. 23, 2025

Running only 76 minutes, the movie is a veristic and voluble delight, an exercise in eavesdropping on a pair of smart, funny people who wear posterity—there’s a tape recorder running, after all—with wry lightness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

Myrcella came running after her brother, and the dwarf picked her up by the waist and spun her in a circle, squealing.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin