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ran

[ran] / ræn /








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Earlier, he co-founded and ran Fox Kids Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The biggest sentence, of 10 years, went to Obaidullah Maroofkhel, who ran the Afghan network.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

AFP ran excerpts through other AI detection tools and came up with a variety of results -- from it being "very likely" to have been written by a human to "100 percent" AI generated.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife once employed 13 specialists dedicated to resolving human-wildlife conflicts, but it let all but one of them go after funding ran dry in 2024.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

They left the beeches and ran through a spruce forest.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver



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