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run around

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. frolic, lark, rollick, skylark, disport, sport, cavort, gambol, frisk, romp, run around, lark aboutverb

    play boisterously

    "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the playroom"

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  1. run aroundverb

    To be very busy doing many different things.

  2. run aroundverb

    to move from one end of the consist to the other, so as to pull the train in the opposite direction.

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  1. run around

    "Run around" generally means to be very busy doing many different tasks or activities, often in a hurried or chaotic manner. It can also refer to an act of deceit by avoid giving direct answers, solution or evading a question or problem. Additionally, it can refer to the physical act of running or moving around an area or location.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of run around in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of run around in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of run around in a Sentence

  1. Dianne Feinstein:

    My whole view of Saudi Arabia changed with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, i will not support another Saudi arms sale, and I urge all of my Senate Intelligence Committee colleagues to stand up for congressional prerogative and block the President's end-run around the law.

  2. Keely Newman:

    We’d pick up our children from school and then run around to different activities. We couldn’t wait to get home to get something to eat because there just weren’t any fast options where we could run in and get something like we chose to feed them at home, this whole thing was born out of the idea of serving whole foods, locally sourced when possible, with no preservatives, and organic when possible. Just good, clean food by design.

  3. Ethan Blevins:

    It does make it look like it's an end run around Citizens United, corporate decision-making process and who owns shares are two totally different things.

  4. Gordon Lightfoot:

    A child is born to a welfare case/ Where the rats run around like they own the place/ The room is chilly, the building is old/ That's how it goes/ A doctor's found on his welfare rounds/ And he comes and he leaves on the double

  5. Don McCullin:

    The press had had pretty free rein in the Vietnam War ... to run around where we want, go anywhere, see anything, but once the war was over, (there was a) feeling that it was the media that helped to lose (America) the war. We didn't.


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