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run after
verb
- to pursue (a member of the opposite sex) with persistent attention
- to pursue (anything) persistently
- to care for in an excessively attentive or servile way
she runs after her three grown sons as if they were babies
Idioms and Phrases
Also, chase after .Example Sentences
Ana said she felt able to speak about how Ysgol Friars was run after leaving the school.
You decided to run after Congress overturned a D.C. law in early 2023.
Aaron Wood spent two days on the run after absconding from North Sea Camp near Boston on 22 September.
A two-year probe by the Charity Commission found there were problems with the way the organisation was run after a rapid period of growth.
The clock will continue to run after a successful or unsuccessful running play.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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