running
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In the city, there were few gasoline-powered cars and no buses running, but the streets were full of bicycles, electric motorcycles and three-wheeled electric vehicles used to transport people and goods.
From Salon
“I’m not trying to talk about, you know, ‘I was born in a town called Hope with no running water.’
From Los Angeles Times
On the morning of Feb. 7, before filling out her paperwork at the city clerk’s office, Raman called Bass to inform her she was running.
From Los Angeles Times
Some endowment chiefs are running out of patience.
In a 2012 email, she told Epstein the club was running deficits at times.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.