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How to use the word runaway in a Sentence?

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When it comes to Black culture, only us runaway slaves can relate to and perhaps trust each other.

Link Starbureiy

added by anonymous
1 month ago

China’s runaway local debt poses a serious threat to the country’s overall economic health and will weigh heavily on China’s still-nascent recovery.

Craig Singleton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Yes, things have cooled way down in the housing market, but we don’t have a glut of homes for sale, that is the main thing that is buffering us from runaway price declines.

Jeff Tucker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Because the Democrats have caused inflation, crime in our streets by defunding the police, runaway spending causing inflation, going after American energy and making the price of gas, causing inflation. This is a plan to fix the problems the Democrats have created, and I think the American public should have an election based upon ideas.

Kevin McCarthy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It was an honor spending the August recess on the campaign trail with over 100 members and candidates. Throughout my travels from Oregon to Rhode Island, voters are fired up and ready to make their voices heard to stop Democrats' runaway inflation, secure our borders, and reduce the rise in violent crime.

Kevin McCarthy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The influx of spending is like nothing we've ever seen before. I would have expected that to be potentially a little bit more measured, but it has been completely like literally a runaway train, they were sort of spraying money everywhere.

Peter Laatz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At best, Russia can aim to demonstrate resilience to sanctions, but that just means staving a runaway economic collapse, this is why the real cost of sanctions is an opportunity cost of forgone growth.

Esfandyar Batmanghelidj

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The main lesson that Russian should draw from Iran's experience is that evading sanctions and resisting sanctions is hard, at best, Russia can aim to demonstrate resilience to sanctions, but that just means staving a runaway economic collapse.

Esfandyar Batmanghelidj

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The reason we have runaway inflation is Joe Biden. The reason we have a shipping crisis, a supply chain crisis at this stage, is Joe Biden. So if he wants to assign blame, all he needs is a mirror, and he can look in it because he's the source of most of these problems and the solutions he's offering are either nonexistent or totally fake, if the president wants to be serious, he'll admit that his policies have been wrong, that his policies have been weak, that his policies have endangered this nation and the world, and he'll tell us how he's going to change course.

Josh Hawley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We need to focus on this runaway inflation, the horrible situation at the border, the problem with our educational system, i think those are issues the American people care much more about.

Chris Christie

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Shale can't come to the rescue and you need OPEC to prevent runaway prices, in 2015, people wrote OPEC's obituary because of shale. But now OPEC is in the driver's seat.

Helima Croft

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The fact of the matter is that for most of this modern era of Fed rate policy, we haven't had runaway inflation.

Karissa McDonough

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I think it's a much tighter contest this year than in 2016, bernie Sanders still appears to be the most popular among Latinos, but Bernie Sanders's not a runaway.

Matt Barreto

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I wasn't scared. I was ecstatic, we've been preparing for some time to have a runaway success.

David Lee

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When ice is warmer and squishier, it becomes more responsive to tidal forces that deform it, mimas lacked the minimum amount of heat to start with to get tidal forces to trigger runaway heating.

Marc Neveu

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We believe Beijing is painfully aware of these risks, which is why we do not expect runaway stimulus this time around.

Darren Tay

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There are not a lot of high profile IPOs that have been runaway successes.

Wall Street.Scott Kessler

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think it’s an inevitability from about halfway through the season that Jon and Daenerys are going to fall into bed together, i think they both know it’s wrong and I think they both know it’s going to cause problems, but it’s that thing. When you suddenly feel that deeply about someone, you go through those events together. It’s like a runaway train, you can’t stop it happening.

Kit Harington

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Aversion is the most evident reason for the runaway.

Ashima

added by ashima
7 years ago

Our frustration is, we deal with a very desensitized public, the natural inclination (about a runaway) is the child's behavioral problem is why they've left. We also see significant numbers of runway children who are running away from a situation, whether it's abuse or neglect or sexual abuse in the home. These children face unique risks when they're gone so we applaud the conversation and we applaud the attention that this issue is being given.

Robert Lowery

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It's stop-loss technical selling combined with sheer liquidation by those fearing we'll soon be swimming in oil again, we've had crude builds during the summer, when we were supposed to be having runaway draws from record driving.

Phil Davis

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

That's a sea change, it is just runaway warming.

David Phillips

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The market has already priced in a rate hike and we have corrected significantly, the problem will be if the Fed doesn't hike rates tonight, we won't see a runaway rally, we might see some minor sell-offs, but everyone is waiting for this (Fed meet) to get over.

Gaurang Shah

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is like a runaway train and it speaks volumes to the temperament of today's market participants.

David Tawil

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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