run a temperature
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But spokesman Matteo Bruni said Francis did run a temperature temporarily Wednesday evening.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 8, 2021
Appearing on "Fox & Friends" with host Brian Kilmeade, O'Neill said he had run a temperature that was, at its highest, hovering around 100.8 to 101 degrees Fahrenheit.
From Fox News • Mar. 20, 2020
The roots of the firewall crisis go back to 1974, when physicist Stephen Hawking at the University of Cambridge, UK, showed that quantum effects cause black holes to run a temperature.
From Nature • Apr. 3, 2013
His Royal Highness had submitted to typhoid inoculation on shipboard, had run a temperature for four days, was obviously not up to cricket.
From Time Magazine Archive
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At about this time his cousin began to tire easily and to run a temperature.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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