run by someone

1. Try out on someone, as in Let me run this idea by you and see what you think of it. [Colloquial; 1900s]

Example Sentences

How he went from dishwasher to head chef at a restaurant run by someone from his small hometown of Tecuala, Nayarit.

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Young Perspective, a YouTube channel with more than 800,000 subscribers run by someone who describes himself as "a young man who values freedom", often shares clips from parliamentary sessions showing PPP politicians taking down opposition members.

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A Rivas spokesman said the departure was not a retreat from disagreement, but rather a decision to stop supporting a platform “overtaken by harmful disinformation, hate speech, antisemitism and racism, and that’s run by someone who is promoting this hateful rhetoric.”

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Workers faced a robust jobs market, with the number of full-time employees increasing year over year, the share of women working full time year-round reaching an all-time high and an increase in income for households run by someone with no high school diploma.

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Now, at age 50, he has opened the state’s first legal cannabis dispensary to be run by someone previously punished under New York’s old, prohibitionist drug laws.

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