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rundown

[ruhn-doun] / ˈrʌnˌdaʊn /


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Zaiden gave me a quick rundown of dated computers and other equipment students use to design drones and robots.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

Check out this week’s issue of Barron’s Global Signals for a more detailed rundown of what specific stocks and sectors could benefit from potential trade deals, including agriculture, semiconductors, and self-driving cars.

From Barron's • May 14, 2026

Below is a rundown of the executives making the trip and what could be at stake.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

Engineers, lawyers and other emissaries of the U.S. oil industry have flocked to the heavily guarded hotel to pitch their Venezuelan counterparts on plans to revive the country’s rundown oil fields.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Irwin lived in a murky, comfortable basement apartment in one of the rundown streets of outer Cambridge and drove me there—for a beer, he said—after three cups of bitter coffee in a student cafe.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath




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