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Recent Examples of end run
Bob Fernandez, ProPublica, 17 Dec. 2024
The sea may provide an end run for the West in escaping China’s monopolization of terrestrial mining.
—Greg Autry, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
Kim Zetter, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2016
This gap creates an easy end-run around the law’s protections: companies that are barred from selling data to the government directly can effectively launder it through data brokers.
—Elizabeth Goitein, Foreign Affairs, 6 June 2023
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Noun
In interviews, professors who specialize in bankruptcy said that the bonuses appeared to be an end run around Kennedy’s reforms.
—Bob Fernandez, ProPublica, 17 Dec. 2024
The sea may provide an end run for the West in escaping China’s monopolization of terrestrial mining.
—Greg Autry, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
Verb
The writs aren’t intended to be an end-run around existing statutes but simply to give courts a tool to enforce existing statutory authorities, particularly when there is a gap in what those statutes cover.
—Kim Zetter, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2016
This gap creates an easy end-run around the law’s protections: companies that are barred from selling data to the government directly can effectively launder it through data brokers.
—Elizabeth Goitein, Foreign Affairs, 6 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for end run
Noun
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Buffalo River Arkansas America’s first National River, the Buffalo River in the Ozarks, offers dense foliage, towering limestone bluffs, and free-flowing, undamned waters.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Southern Living,
13 Mar. 2025
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Del Mar’s coastal bluffs have long been threatened by erosion.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Van Lith has competed in four conference title games over the span of her career, but this was the first time the title didn’t evade her.—
Allison Smith,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 2025
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Perez was arrested and transported to Troop G where he was charged with evading responsibility, reckless driving, operating a motor vehicle without a license and reckless use of highway by a pedestrian.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
6 Mar. 2025
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Animal lovers have been left in stitches by a dog whose joy for playing fetch comes out in an extraordinary way.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
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Too often, these virtual worlds are padded out simply to make the experience longer, inundated with enemy camps to take down and fruitless fetch quests that all feel copy-and-paste.—
Hayes Madsen,
Rolling Stone,
13 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Which only underscores the importance of drafting well and avoiding the need to fill holes through free agency.—
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
14 Mar. 2025
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Our Trust and Safety Resource Center offers additional guidance on recognizing and avoiding phishing attempts.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Trump has made some rhetorical feints toward Obama’s worldview, echoing his critiques of U.S. interventionism.—
Ben Rhodes,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Aug. 2020
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As the apparently info-poor future husband brushes off his well-meaning scene partner, Elle Duncan walks in and there’s another head feint at the S-E-X talk.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
31 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Duterte withdrew the Philippines in 2019 from the Rome Statute, the court’s founding treaty, in a move human rights activists say was aimed at escaping accountability.—
Jim Gomez,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2025
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Without cellphone service, and fearing that his driver might have a weapon, the then 32-year-old Ugandan felt powerless to escape.—
Amy Gunia,
CNN,
10 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Disliking the idea of purchasing citizenship, Schneider said Trump is establishing a tax dodge for gold card recipients.—
Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2025
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By William Baldwin, Senior Contributor Three weeks remain for end-of-year tax dodges.—
William Baldwin,
Forbes,
4 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Trying to circumvent that process by removing or intimidating a judge – with violence or with impeachment – could endanger both judges and their families, and American democracy, experts and legal scholars say.—
Henry Gass,
The Christian Science Monitor,
12 Mar. 2025
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But Consumer Reports was able to easily circumvent that restriction by simply playing an audio recording from a computer.—
Kevin Collier,
NBC News,
10 Mar. 2025
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“End run.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/end%20run. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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