running after
Example Sentences
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With Rangers now arithmetically out of the running after three consecutive losses, it is down to Hearts and defending champions Celtic.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
It and its leader Domingos Simoes Pereira, who only recently returned from exile, were disqualified from running after the Supreme Court ruled their legislative and presidential applications had been submitted after the deadline.
From Barron's • Nov. 23, 2025
Running only 76 minutes, the movie is a veristic and voluble delight, an exercise in eavesdropping on a pair of smart, funny people who wear posterity—there’s a tape recorder running, after all—with wry lightness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
One previous candidate dropped out of the running after a disastrous hearing before the council, and another would-be commissioner quietly withdrew from running earlier this year.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2025
For a moment, she thought of running after him, but then the smell hit her.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
