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run across

British  

verb

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

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run across Idioms  

  1. see come across, def. 1.

Example Sentences

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It may be that one of NCP's biggest strengths - the hundreds of car parks it runs across the UK - actually ended up speeding up its demise.

From BBC

Seven iron bars ran across it, four bars up and down.

From Literature

The BBC witnessed some of their minders running across the hotel to try to find them – but they had already gone.

From BBC

“By allocating a larger share of the silicon budget to memory bandwidth rather than compute, Meta can optimize the chip for the specific workloads running across its social and messaging platforms,” Naji wrote.

From Barron's

Shortly after they left, the BBC witnessed some of their minders running across the hotel to try to find them.

From BBC

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