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The verb so versatile it operates a country, a fever, and your mascara simultaneously.
means To move fast on foot, or by extension to operate, flow, manage, or continue along some path.
from From Old English rinnan, to flow or run, sharing roots across Germanic tongues where it long described both rivers and runners.
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Liquid logicRivers run because the word first meant flow.
Election senseTo run for office dates to 1820s America.