run across
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Von Mierers, intimately engaged with both the Manhattan club scene and Wall Street, was fated to run across Mr. Richards.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
The witness described how the young children and other bystanders had "run across the road" in panic.
From Barron's • May 28, 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
If you ever do run across it, you will now be prepared.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
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