run by

verb

variants or run past
ran by or ran by; run by or run by; running by or running by; runs by or runs by
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transitive verb

: to present to (as for evaluation)
ran some ideas by her

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Cramer's Charitable Trust, the portfolio run by CNBC's Investing Club, owns shares of Boeing. — Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2026 Mamdani campaigned on a promise of making the city’s bus system free for all riders — even though the buses are run by the MTA and the city lacks the power to do so. — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2026 The plan is to get the production back up and running by the fall. — Joe Otterson, Variety, 3 Aug. 2026 The restaurant is run by the team behind San Francisco’s Taksim and Lokma restaurants. — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for run by

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“Run by.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/run%20by. Accessed 5 Aug. 2026.

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