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runs

noun as in Montezuma's revenge

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Newsom will likely be out if Harris runs since the two are considered allies, California political insiders said.

If Huckabee runs, the hurdles he faced the last time out, namely geography and money, would still be there.

Your general reaction runs along the lines of: “When will these geezers give it up and go for a mall walk or something?”

While not all 86 million maintain positions of governance or public service, the Party's machinery runs on watchmaker precision.

A professional ballroom dancer and instructor, her name reflects a parallel that runs in both BDSM and dance: symbiosis.

But his servant runs after the man, and gets two talents of silver and some garments under false pretences.

The third line runs thus: “How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle in the icy air of night.”

The MacLeod trail runs less than twenty miles north of here, you know.

It still, I am glad to hear, runs an honorable and profitable course, which its merits well deserve.

I think the coulée right under his perch is an arm of the one we're in; runs in somewhere below.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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