runaway
Example Sentences
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This can trigger unwanted chemical reactions and oxygen release, raising safety risks including thermal runaway.
From Science Daily
A runaway rally in silver, which has more than doubled in price this year, has swept up amateur investors.
The Coast Guard and U.S. military are assembling more manpower and weapons to forcibly board Bella 1, a runaway oil tanker linked to Iran and Venezuela, the WSJ reported.
Bollywood has long been unpredictable at the box office and the pandemic compounded problems, but producers argue that today's losses stem less from creative failure and more from top artists' runaway expenses.
From Barron's
In the singles countdown, PinkPantheress was the runaway winner - but the rest of the field was tightly packed, reflecting a year where there haven't been many universally popular, culturally dominant songs.
From BBC
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