How to Use end run in a Sentence
end run
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Making an end run After losing elections, some teams subsequently sidestep voters to get new stadiums.
—David A. Lieb, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2024
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But some artists have made an end run around these forces.
—Scott Timberg, Vox, 30 July 2018
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So, thwarted by the apes, AMC did an end run around them.
—Jason Zweig, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
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More of a left-end run stuffer than a right-end pass rusher in a 4-3 scheme.
—USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2021
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Wilson had six points in the game-ending run as the Sky missed their last 10 shots.
—chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2019
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And the Health Department is fully aware of this end run around the rules.
—Karol Markowicz, Washington Examiner, 17 Dec. 2020
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The mayor seems to be attempting to make an end run around BOPA.
—Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2023
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But the feds don’t deserve the right to pull an end run around Illinois law in an effort to kill him.
—Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2019
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This bait and switch creates a massive end run around the Fourth Amendment.
—Elizabeth Goitein, New Republic, 26 Oct. 2017
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Last week the House of Delegates passed a bill that aims to do an end run around the Electoral College.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2020
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What to know: The executive branch has pulled end runs like this before.
—Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2017
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This year, someone stole some of the spotlight from the measurement giant with an end run.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
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Some styled themselves consultants and advisers - the kind of end run around the rules that Trump once railed against.
—Anchorage Daily News, 24 Oct. 2020
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Football teams aren’t the only ones that execute end runs at the Super Bowl.
—Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2018
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But Calloway answered with a 3-pointer that sparked a 15-3 game-ending run for the Dragons.
—Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 21 Feb. 2018
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Trump did that as an end run around Congress, which wasn’t sending him enough money to spend on a border wall.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2022
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Facebook has tried to make an end run around EU rules by giving users a stark choice: give up some rights or delete their accounts.
—Christopher Mims, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2018
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The newer, high-end running brands will be able to take advantage of changing trends in the running world, too.
—Noah Davis, GQ, 31 Jan. 2018
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One active area of research creates an end run around the SYZ conjecture.
—Kevin Hartnett, WIRED, 15 Apr. 2018
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So what does that leave, given there’s so much going on, like Africa for example, the Chinese making end runs in Africa.
—Recode Staff, Recode, 4 May 2018
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But to others, the effort was a sly end run that avoided consideration of whether the project was needed at all.
—Ivan Penn, New York Times, 31 May 2022
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Seahawks’ cornerback Kemah Siverand tried to execute an end run around the strict protocols, got caught and paid the price.
—oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2020
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Spinks was apparently aware of the propensity for some of his staff to make end runs around the bureaucracy.
—Travis Loller, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023
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Treasury urged states to examine direct-to-consumer sales as an end run around the constrictions of the three-tier system.
—Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2022
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Sadly, what follows pushes a bit too much toward O’Sullivan and wacky high jinks that feel dated and weaker than the show deserves in its end run.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2021
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Uber, Lyft and DoorDash have put $90 million toward seeking an end run around it.
—Judy Lin, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2019
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Return to menu Democratic lawmakers have quietly worked for months to set the stage for a long-shot end run around McCarthy and Biden.
—Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
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According to the archives at the University of Baltimore, Haleyville made an end run around the larger 911 system to be the first to have it.
—Paul Gattis, AL.com, 16 Feb. 2018
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San Jose State does an end run around local health regulations and will practice at Humboldt State.
—oregonlive, 3 Oct. 2020
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Some would be planting their own pot to do an end run around corporate cannabis (which, with each passing day, looks more and more like Big Pharma and Big Tobacco).
—Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2021
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