run across
Britishverb
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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
If you run across a professional athlete, pose for a photo standing right next to him, beta-smiling in admiration, and post it on social media.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
"It was a nice way to get out and move, and 18 months later I became the first type 1 diabetic to run across the UK," he says.
From BBC • Jan. 18, 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
I see her run across the cobbles to the door.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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