run with

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run with

verb runs with · running with · ran with · run with

literally To be streaming with a fluid. After a long run, his face was running with sweat.
idiomatic, informal To follow something through to completion or realization. 3M's culture and its organizational structure are all directed to encouraging its people to take an idea and run with it.
idiomatic, informal To take an incomplete or inadequate (plan, text, etc.) and develop it further, often with the implication of carelessness. They took this three-second sound bite and ran with it to try to smear me.
US, idiomatic, informal To be a member of (a gang, hooligan firm, etc.); to associate with a, typically disreputable, individual or group. The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
Similar: consort, keep company
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, with. The thief was running with the purse in his hands.

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verb to follow something through to completion or realization; to take an incomplete or inadequate (plan, text, etc.) and develop it further, often with the implicat

Español	adaptarse, seguir / continuar con, usar, utilizar

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@misc{run_with_2026,
  title = {run with},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/run%20with},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}