I. adjective
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success
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The book was a runaway success .
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a runaway freight train
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Some economists are now predicting the danger of runaway inflation.
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They see technology as a runaway force that humans can no longer control.
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Weiss runs a drop-in center for runaway teens.
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He could not get a grip on the runaway world.
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Labour as the party of runaway inflation?
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Leadville roared toward civilization like a runaway train.
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Meanwhile, the astronauts prepared for another close pass of the runaway satellite and the miles of tether suspended below it.
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Pyrotechnics, a runaway boulder and a few animatronic Indys are along the way.
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The book was a runaway success.
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The colonists encountered the problem with runaway slaves.
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The distinctive authority of this new act made both national and state governments responsible for the capture and return of runaway slaves.
II. noun
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Bush's prepared arrival speech on an airport runaway was drowned by hissing and booing.
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Prince Charles Edward was not among the runaways although to rescue him had been the task force's real objective.
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She eventually developed a reputation for harboring adolescent runaways who were fleeing oppressive treatment by their captains.
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The longhorns' ancestors were runaways who grew up wild in the brushy bottoms of south Texas.
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Uncle Fred, or a runaway Makes Good!