runaway
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Like other producers, Netflix has benefited from improvements to California’s tax incentive program intended to stem so-called runaway production, though Bajaria said the program is not as “comprehensive” as it needs to be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
For Dr Agata Chrzanowksa, an art historian and tour guide in Florence, the hills and mountains north of the city are "a very good spot to runaway from the heat" for those driving.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Type Ia supernovae are extremely bright explosions that are generally believed to occur when a white dwarf becomes unstable and undergoes a runaway thermonuclear reaction.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
In the meantime, how about putting more information before passengers of this runaway train?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The last time this young man had seen her outside the Night Zoo’s walls, she’d been a runaway.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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A database by the Texas Runaway Slave Project, which found listings for 2,500 runaways across various Texas newspapers from the 1840s through the 1860s, also documents the frequented journey to Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
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
We find cots that, according to a sign, Remarkable and Unremarkable runaways slept on.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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