run into
Britishverb
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(also tr) to collide with or cause to collide with
her car ran into a tree
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to encounter unexpectedly
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(also tr) to be beset by or cause to be beset by
the project ran into financial difficulties
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to extend to; be of the order of
debts running into thousands
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Meet or find by chance, as in I ran into an old friend at the concert . [c. 1900]
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See run against , def. 1.
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Collide with, as in The car ran straight into the retaining wall . [c. 1800]
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Incur, as in We've run into extra expenses with the renovation , or James said they've run into debt . [c. 1400]
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Mount up, increase to, as in Her book may well run into a second volume .
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Follow without interruption, as in What with one day running into the next, we never knew just what day it was! or He spoke so fast his words ran into one another . [Late 1600s] Also see run into a stone wall ; run into the ground .
Example Sentences
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“But when I ran into you murdering your phone—it was different. It felt real.”
From Literature
I said, whirling to face him so quickly he almost ran into me.
From Literature
“No one on the ground has actually, to our knowledge, run into the limits” imposed by Anthropic, Amodei told CBS News on Friday.
Coco 2 is designed to operate autonomously, but there will still be human oversight in case the robot runs into trouble, Rash said.
From Los Angeles Times
“You run into people asking ‘Do you have any free Reese’s?’” he said.
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