run out
verb
ran out; run out; running out; runs out
1
a
: to come to an end : expire
time ran out
b
: to become exhausted or used up
the gasoline ran out
2
: to jut out
1
a
: to finish out (a course, a series, a contest, etc.) : complete
b
of a baseball batter
: to run hard to first base after hitting (a batted ball)
ran out the grounder
2
a
: to fill out (a typeset line) with quads, leaders, or ornaments
b
: to set (a line of text, such as the first line of a paragraph) with a hanging indention
3
: to exhaust (oneself) in running
4
: to cause to leave by force or coercion : expel
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The Raiders had a chance to get even closer at the end of the half, but saw the clock run out after a Smith scramble to the five.
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Matt Roy, Boston Herald, 20 Sep. 2025
Those funds ran out quickly, and so the pair were soon depending on favors from unpaid collaborators—stylists, publicists, producers, graphic designers.
—Ana Karina Zatarain, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
With questions abound about the government running out of fiscal headroom, inward foreign investment will be cheered by officials.
—Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
Yet the train of military vehicles that appeared was remarkably tame, a cavalcade of superannuated weapons platforms serving as a reminder of the degree to which the military-industrial complex, glutted with money and pampered by Congress, has run out of new ideas.
—Seth Harp, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
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Matt Roy, Boston Herald, 20 Sep. 2025
Those funds ran out quickly, and so the pair were soon depending on favors from unpaid collaborators—stylists, publicists, producers, graphic designers.
—Ana Karina Zatarain, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
With questions abound about the government running out of fiscal headroom, inward foreign investment will be cheered by officials.
—Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
Yet the train of military vehicles that appeared was remarkably tame, a cavalcade of superannuated weapons platforms serving as a reminder of the degree to which the military-industrial complex, glutted with money and pampered by Congress, has run out of new ideas.
—Seth Harp, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
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“Run out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/run%20out. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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