run-down
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“Rhoda the unflappable,” as Leonie thinks of her, makes short work of locating her quarry in a run-down villa on the small Maltese island of Gozo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The family moved north, found a run-down marina on the Connecticut–Rhode Island border, and bought it.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
Wolf, a construction worker who lived with his mother and aunt in a run-down apartment complex off Foothill Boulevard, vented in Instagram comments about the city’s handling of the homelessness crisis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026
AFP gives a run-down of where these data centres are being built, and why:
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
We were in the backwoods of New Jersey, on a crumbling road lined with run-down businesses and tattered billboard signs.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
He also is a downtown loft developer and commissioned studies that helped inform a far less expensive option that would run down near the flowing river, rather than up above.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Katrina says guardianship gives her the chance to live in an unusual property and describes the mansion as an "incredible" and "romantic" place despite it being "quite run down".
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
HEAF: I run down the street and ask consumers exiting our stores why they left without buying something.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
At the same time, there has been a decline in those who believe going to university leaves graduates "a lot better off" in the long run, down from 50% in 2005 to 36% in 2025.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
It had taken him two whole minutes to run down the stairs, and maybe he’d accidentally had the ringer turned off and so he’d missed a call from Josie.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
