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Antonyms for running awayrun·ning away

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  1. running awaynoun

    the act of leaving (without permission) the place you are expected to be

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  1. running away

    Synonyms:
    desertion, fleeing, absconding, elopement

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  1. Alhaji Jiddari:

    After the prayers we saw people running away from Aldawari village into ours, and there was the sound of gunshots from that direction, soldiers drove towards the direction of the shooting.

  2. Calahan Walsh:

    It's a very dangerous situation, absolutely somebody could have come to pick her up — somebody that she was chatting with, somebody that she may have started what she believed to be a relationship with. But we can't rule out the possibility that she was running away from home… and it was somebody that she didn't know that picked her up, which is going to be even more difficult because she doesn't have access to that data] trail that law enforcement could follow to pinpoint who that person was that she met.

  3. Rabbi Mordechai Bald of Lviv:

    It feels like the whole of Ukraine is here running away from death, there is a feeling of the Holocaust in Kyiv.

  4. Robert Lowery:

    Our frustration is, we deal with a very desensitized public, the natural inclination (about a runaway) is the child's behavioral problem is why they've left. We also see significant numbers of runway children who are running away from a situation, whether it's abuse or neglect or sexual abuse in the home. These children face unique risks when they're gone so we applaud the conversation and we applaud the attention that this issue is being given.

  5. Edward Hoagland:

    Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me.

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