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run across

British  

verb

  1. (intr, preposition) to meet unexpectedly; encounter by chance

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

run across Idioms  
  1. see come across, def. 1.


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The witness described how the young children and other bystanders had "run across the road" in panic.

From Barron's May 28, 2026

AI is also fundamentally changing how some advertisers create the ads that run across Meta-owned sites.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 13, 2026

Following an executive order from President Trump last week, Sable Offshore Corp. announced Monday that it resumed oil flow through pipelines that run across Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Kern counties.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 16, 2026

Cause and effect run across many scales at once, from ion channels to dendrites to circuits to whole-brain dynamics, and these levels do not behave like independent modules stacked in layers.

From Science Daily Dec. 24, 2025

The little Jones boy run across the street to get it.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

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