running after
Example Sentences
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Inflation has heated up two months running after the conflict in the Middle East spiked crude oil prices, though for now remains inside the 1% to 3% window the Bank of Canada aims to maintain.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
It felt like missing the last helicopter out of ’Nam, as if I were running after couplehood as bombs went off around me and yelling, “Nnnnnooooooooooo!!”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
Austrian veteran Gasser, champion in Pyeongchang and Beijing, was out of the running after scoring poorly in her first two runs.
From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026
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
Soon people began running after each other to deliver a mouthful.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
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