run
Definition
To move quickly on foot
To remember it
Picture the mouse running in a wheel with balls. Think of it as if you're watching someone run on a track, but in a fun toy.
Examples
- A1
She runs five kilometers every morning before breakfast.
- A1
The software is running well — no crashes or errors so far.
- A2
He has been running the family business since his father retired.
- A2
The river runs through the center of the city and is a popular spot for recreation.
- B1
The campaign ran for six months and reached over a million people through a combination of social media, direct mail, and community events.
- B1
Running a country is more complex than most people realize — it involves balancing competing interests, managing scarce resources, and making decisions under uncertainty.
- B2
The distinction between a sprint and a marathon is often used metaphorically in organizational life: projects that are run at sprint pace quickly exhaust the team, while those paced like a marathon risk losing momentum and direction over the long run.
- B2
The long run — the time horizon over which structural effects fully work themselves out — is one of the most important and most neglected dimensions in policy analysis: short-run effects are immediate and visible, while long-run consequences may be larger but arrive too late to influence the decisions that cause them.
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