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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Both systems has been run by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, a city-county joint powers agency in the process of being dismantled. — Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026 More than half of Americans in Medicare choose a Medicare Advantage plan, which is run by private insurers instead of the federal government. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 29 Oct. 2026 It was tested at a paper mill run by Felix Schoeller GmbH & Co. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026 How to experience it San Xavier Co-op Farm, run by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, sells wild foods, including cholla buds and mesquite flour. — Tovar Cerulli, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for run by

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