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Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024
This was a terrible loophole in the law, an end run on women’s rights.
—Glamour, 9 July 2024
Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 31 May 2024
Some of these issues are attempts to do an end-run around the state compromise.
—Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
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Noun
But the proposal garnered fierce early opposition from some local leaders, concerned the group was making an end run around the planning process, as well as environmental groups concerned about the loss of natural habitat.
—Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024
This was a terrible loophole in the law, an end run on women’s rights.
—Glamour, 9 July 2024
Verb
At the end of the first quarter, some 23 states had fewer than 1,000 electric vehicles on offer, excluding brands like Tesla that do an end-run around traditional dealerships.
—Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 31 May 2024
Some of these issues are attempts to do an end-run around the state compromise.
—Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for end run
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Good rattling/grunting setup: Wind in your face and rock bluff or stream at your back.Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2024
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At the eastern tip of the Hamptons on Long Island, the Stone House in Montauk sits on 3.2 secluded acres near the edge of a 70-foot bluff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2024
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She was forced to navigate the election as a quasi-incumbent, largely unable to separate herself from the Biden administration's positions while evading questions about policy promises from her 2019 Democratic primary run.Noah Bressner, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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Stealth fighters are those that are designed to evade radar and other monitoring to conduct missions without being detected or intercepted.Simone McCarthy, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
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Mikel Delgado, a senior research scientist at Purdue who led the study, said prior to their research, it was well established that some cats play fetch.Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2024
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But both cats and dogs will carry prey items away from the kill site, which may also partially explain how a behavior such as fetch could arise.Judith Stella, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
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Scott crashed into another vehicle while attempting to avoid the shots.Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Last year, France proposed a ban on social media for those under 15, though users were able to avoid the ban with parental consent.Reuters, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Spain’s standout attacker at the tournament received the ball out wide, wrong-footed the defender with a brilliant feint and put a ball into the box which eventually trickled on to Celia Segura, who made no mistake from close range.Neel Shelat, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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But this gesture is rarely more than a feint, as the series never probes Haddix’s interiority.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2024
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An 11-year-old sister who was shot but survived by playing dead managed to escape the home through a window and went to a neighbor’s home, a King County sheriff’s detective wrote in an affidavit.Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2024
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The organizations work together to provide resources and support to help domestic violence shelters become pet friendly so survivors and their animals can escape and begin their healing journey together.Bruna Nessif, Variety, 24 Oct. 2024
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The finale ended on a cliffhanger, with Jakes cutting off his dreadlocks and blowing dodge with a cool $9 million in his pocket.Amber Dowling, TVLine, 28 Oct. 2024
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Combat, a rare low point of the original, returns in a newly scrappy guise: Each swing, dodge, and pull of the trigger is a moment of high-octane drama in itself.Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
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It's since gotten harder to circumvent, but there are still ways to get around the ban.Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
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And while these models have stronger guardrails built in to prevent misuse, many people have found ways to ‘jailbreak’ them, effectively circumventing these guardrails.Tharin Pillay, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
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“End run.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/end%20run. Accessed 18 Nov. 2024.
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