How to Use end run in a Sentence

end run

1 of 2 noun
  • That sort of end run would not be without precedent.
    — Sacramento Bee Contributor, Sacbee.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The company’s lawsuit thus amounts to an end run around the law.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
  • Of course, clever financial minds will always find an end run around the rules.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2012
  • Yes, some of the Gen V kids, for sure, show up, more towards the end run.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 8 Apr. 2026
  • This is an end run around regulations that are on the books today.
    — Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 22 Apr. 2025
  • This was a terrible loophole in the law, an end run on women’s rights.
    — Glamour, 9 July 2024
  • Wilson had six points in the game-ending run as the Sky missed their last 10 shots.
    — chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2019
  • This is a desperate attempt to do an end run around the French people.
    — The Editors, National Review, 4 Apr. 2025
  • But the feds don’t deserve the right to pull an end run around Illinois law in an effort to kill him.
    — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2019
  • And the Health Department is fully aware of this end run around the rules.
    — Karol Markowicz, Washington Examiner, 17 Dec. 2020
  • This year, someone stole some of the spotlight from the measurement giant with an end run.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
  • This bait and switch creates a massive end run around the Fourth Amendment.
    — Elizabeth Goitein, New Republic, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Two presidents, wily and profane, tried an end run around democracy.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2022
  • Trump did that as an end run around Congress, which wasn’t sending him enough money to spend on a border wall.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2022
  • The newer, high-end running brands will be able to take advantage of changing trends in the running world, too.
    — Noah Davis, GQ, 31 Jan. 2018
  • But if so, the group is still adding shows without making any official declarations about an end run just yet.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The mayor seems to be attempting to make an end run around BOPA.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Football teams aren’t the only ones that execute end runs at the Super Bowl.
    — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2018
  • This model is an end run around more aggressive methods of reducing driving.
    — Jennifer Hernandez, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2026
  • But to others, the effort was a sly end run that avoided consideration of whether the project was needed at all.
    — Ivan Penn, New York Times, 31 May 2022
  • Spinks was apparently aware of the propensity for some of his staff to make end runs around the bureaucracy.
    — Travis Loller, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Despite the lack of goals, the game was exciting with end-to-end runs and missed chances that left fans of both teams groaning and burying their heads in their hands.
    — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 28 June 2026
  • Despite the lack of goals, the game was exciting with end-to-end runs and missed chances that left fans of both teams groaning and burying their heads in their hands.
    — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
  • This isn’t an end run around a manufacturer with a virtual monopoly in fab.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
  • Treasury urged states to examine direct-to-consumer sales as an end run around the constrictions of the three-tier system.
    — Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2022
  • And then was abandoned altogether to show a lot more than that, as the show settled into its full-Pussycat end run.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 2 Nov. 2025
  • One active area of research creates an end run around the SYZ conjecture.
    — Kevin Hartnett, WIRED, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Thus, the law sought to make an end run around Young by preventing state officials from directly enforcing the law.
    — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Last week the House of Delegates passed a bill that aims to do an end run around the Electoral College.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2020
  • In April of 2024, voucher supporters tried an end run around the petition.
    — Peter Greene, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024

end-run

2 of 2 verb
  • Dudek got the job, wittingly or not, through an end-run around his bosses.
    — Eli Hager, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2025
  • With a global start in excess of half a million, the sequel is on track to blow past the first film's global end-run of $1 billion.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Nov. 2025
  • And thanks to Chuy Garcia’s end-run on democracy, progressive Chicago Ald.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
  • His caucus sees that as an end-run around TABOR’s requirement to take tax increases to voters.
    — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The agency has challenged the subpoena, arguing the bid for the arbitration decision is an end-run around the confidential nature of the proceedings.
    — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Johnson earlier Wednesday morning urged GOP caucus members not to join Democrats in the procedural end-run around him.
    — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Trump will now apparently do a similar end-run around Congress to pay other DHS staff like the Coast Guard and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, most of whom have worked without paychecks since mid-February when the shutdown started.
    — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 2 Apr. 2026

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