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Recent Examples of end run
Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 31 Mar. 2025
As a result, drug insurance premiums for seniors last fall would have doubled right before the November elections had the Democrats not found a dubiously legal end run.
—John C. Goodman, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Glenn G. Lammi, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Large Chinese banks tightened transactions with Russia in response to sanctions pressures, but at the same time numerous Chinese cut-outs and smaller banks became involved in creating ways to end-run them.
—Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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Noun
But some legal experts point to plausible strategies for attempting end runs around the 22nd Amendment under unusual scenarios.
—Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 31 Mar. 2025
As a result, drug insurance premiums for seniors last fall would have doubled right before the November elections had the Democrats not found a dubiously legal end run.
—John C. Goodman, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Verb
Otherwise, allowing states to use their federal authorities to regulate transportation by rail would simply end-run ICCTA, and conflict directly with the express intention of Congress to ensure uniform national regulation of rail transportation.
—Glenn G. Lammi, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Large Chinese banks tightened transactions with Russia in response to sanctions pressures, but at the same time numerous Chinese cut-outs and smaller banks became involved in creating ways to end-run them.
—Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for end run
Noun
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Worried about Michilimackinac’s vulnerability to attacks by American rebels, the British relocated the fort to the high bluffs of Mackinac Island in 1780 and shortened its name.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 June 2025
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Look to Flanagan, who probably won’t need to call any bluffs for the time being.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
5 June 2025
Verb
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If your privacy practices have been less than perfect in the past—and whose have not, given the vanishingly tiny odds of evading every form of digital data collection—additional information about you from over the years is likely available from hundreds of data brokers.—
Andy Greenberg,
Wired News,
16 June 2025
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Hundreds of Iranian missiles rained down across Israel beginning Saturday night, some of them evading the country's sophisticated defense systems.—
Rebecca Rosman,
NPR,
15 June 2025
Noun
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This can be through walking, obedience training, running, games of fetch, or swimming.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 May 2025
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That afternoon, Tyrion was playing fetch like usual before curling up next to his owner for a quick nap.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
People.com,
12 May 2025
Verb
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Several groups have begun paying street vendors in California to temporarily stop working in public areas to avoid Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 June 2025
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Traditionally, presidents such as George H.W. Bush and his son, George W. Bush, have followed the long-standing practice of avoiding criticism in a public way.—
Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
18 June 2025
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Which should have been a clue that the entire premise of Season 2 is an extended feint.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
26 May 2025
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Jose Ramirez Breakdown Ramirez uses level changes and feints to set up his positioning and range and to pick up on the tendencies of his opponents.—
Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The individual then escaped, believed to have escaped outside the back of the house.—
Mandy Taheri
Peter Aitken
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 June 2025
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Heat escapes its atmosphere so quickly that, were one to stand at its equator at noon with skin exposed — not a great idea!—
Alex Morris,
Rolling Stone,
15 June 2025
Noun
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The film is notable for a dodge ball scene that goes disgustingly awry, a long gay kiss — an unheard-of smooch in 1981 — between Andrew and a bully, and for Arngrim’s goth-twink fabulous costumes, including the silkiest cape.—
Erik Piepenburg,
New York Times,
2 June 2025
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Bravo's reality stars from franchises like The Real Housewives and Below Deck all gather under one roof to spill tea, dodge shade and serve looks.—
Samantha Stutsman,
People.com,
6 June 2025
Verb
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In doing so, Ford circumvented a hefty 25% tariff and only paid a 2.5% import duty.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
18 June 2025
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Presidents since Nixon have circumvented the resolution by simply not recognizing it or by asserting their power as commander in chief.—
ELIZABETH N. SAUNDERS,
Foreign Affairs,
16 June 2025
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“End run.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/end%20run. Accessed 23 Jun. 2025.
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