run across

English

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Verb

run across

  1. To cross by running.
    The police ran across the bridge to catch the criminal.
  2. (idiomatic) To find or discover by chance.
    While I was cleaning the kitchen cupboards, I ran across Mother's recipe for Cornish game hens.

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