the running
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For months, the running joke at Philippe Gaulier’s famed clown school outside of Paris was that Jack Grossman was going to die alone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
“All the running backs, really, I feel like it’s going to benefit us a lot,” Hampton said of the offense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Five women and three men are in the running to succeed Antonio Guterres as leader of the United Nations, which faces unprecedented global instability, wars and its own crushing budget crisis.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
The UKRI, which has an annual budget of about £10bn, said it has had to cut the observatory's annual £2.8m budget because planned research costs for physics and the running of its labs had escalated.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Its sides sprang sheer out of the running water.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
