runaway
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It wants to develop its own sovereign AI models and infrastructure to avoid over-reliance on the United States and China, the sector's runaway leaders.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
“If you were looking for runaway inflation in this report, you didn’t get it,” Harris Financial Group managing partner Jamie Cox said in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Perhaps that’s why, when Spielberg’s “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” was released 25 years ago this month, it wasn’t exactly the runaway summer hit audiences had come to anticipate from the director.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
Motion picture and sound recordings also added 2,800 jobs during the month, despite a deep downturn in Hollywood caused by a reduction in streaming filming, runaway production and other factors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Here she was, a young runaway with few resources.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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She also had a stuffed kitten named John Grady Cole, the hero’s name in McCarthy’s “The Border Trilogy,” which follows three runaways who have a stolen Colt revolver.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024
For years after cousins Elsie Eldora Luscier and Carlotta Maria Sanchez disappeared from the Quinault Indian Reservation in August 1979, authorities thought they were runaways.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2023
Police said the boys were runaways from a residential care facility in San Dimas, which is about 46 miles east of Santa Monica.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 8, 2023
Like Fardousa, the 23-year-old ran away from home and found herself immersed in Mogadishu's underground lifestyle consisting of fellow young runaways who have no financial support.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2023
Her kin weren’t runaways or fugitives—Daddy said they’d been farming Chemung County dirt as long as us Warnes.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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