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Princeton's WordNet

  1. quarrel, wrangle, row, words, run-in, dustupnoun

    an angry dispute

    "they had a quarrel"; "they had words"

GCIDE

  1. Run-innoun

    An argument or quarrel.

Wiktionary

  1. run-innoun

    An encounter; a scrape or brush; especially one involving trouble or difficulty.

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  1. run-in

    A run-in generally refers to an unexpected encounter or conflict with someone. It can also refer to a type of sentence structure in which a subordinated or related thought runs into the main clause, separated only by a comma. In industrial terminology, a run-in period is the initial stage of operation where a machine or engine is tested or conditioned for regular use.

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Anagrams for run-in »

  1. inrun

  2. inurn

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of run-in in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of run-in in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of run-in in a Sentence

  1. David Kochel:

    There's no doubt, particularly in places where Iowa Republicans have struggled in the past few cycles in the suburbs, good women candidates have a high upside, iowa Republicans was a successful governor, Iowa Republicans has foreign policy experience and Iowa Republicans had a very successful run in the Trump administration -- all those things are to Iowa Republicans credit.

  2. Jan Gustavsson:

    These cars run in the blood of our country, sweden is not a religious country, but this is the closest we get.

  3. Joseph Wu:

    People here understand that there's something wrong (with)the way the 'one country, two systems' model is run in Hong Kong ... Taiwan people don't like to be in the same situation.

  4. Nikki Dinki:

    Suddenly I did n’t think about my stomach anymore — everything was working the way it should be, my skin felt different, my hair felt thicker. The stuff we put into our body is what is going to make our bodies run … in very different ways depending on what we eat.

  5. Christian Coleman:

    My plan was to run in these two meets and then go to world championships but I had to all of a sudden, at the drop of a dime, switch up my schedule.


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