END-RAN Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

end-ran

verb

past tense of end-run

as in avoided

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But the trend has not gotten much attention because the state has avoided high-profile disruptions at major employers.

— Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026
Quarterback Kingston Tisdell avoided the rush and threw the ball down the middle.

— Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of avoided

Verb

Denis Bouanga scored late in the second half and Los Angeles FC escaped with a 1-1 draw after trailing the Portland Timbers for 75 minutes on Saturday night.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
Their study analyzed more than 2 million chat messages and identified examples involving grooming, sexualization of minors, bullying, violence and sensitive information sharing that escaped moderation.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of escaped

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In the foreseeable future, a terrorist group with minimal skills could access a jailbroken AI model (one that has evaded safety controls) trained on the world’s most comprehensive biological data set.

— Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
Police said Jackson was driving recklessly and evaded a Muscatine County Sheriff's Office deputy who attempted to stop his vehicle Friday evening in Muscatine.

— Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of evaded

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Alamy Most Popular Long said to bring ruin on the male rulers who owned it, the Koh-i-Noor has also been shunned by female royals in recent decades.

— Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 17 Aug. 2026
At the end of the last cruise, everyone shunned me, except for Roy, who instead was cruel and insulting to me.

— Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of shunned

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The gender data gap did not close because medicine finally got around to it.

— Geri Stengel, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
Capital One got around federal limits on swipe fees by buying Discover’s card network; other banks complained, then went out looking for their own loophole.

— Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 7 July 2026

Definition of got around

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Bonanno, one of its original members, is said to have eschewed the pomp and public appearances of his contemporaries and remained a low-profile figure into the 1950s.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Aug. 2026
By some estimates, one of which was cited in the ruling, the state eschewed an official transcript in more than 1 million hearings during a one-year stretch ending in 2024.

— Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2026

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