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- noun Plural form of
runaway .
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Examples
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Digging through police reports and hospital records, tracking down street kids and runaways from the 1970s, Bosch finds a family ripped apart by an absence -- and a trail, ever more tenuous, into a violent, terrifying world.
City of Bones: Summary and book reviews of City of Bones by Michael Connelly. 2002
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According to the US departments health and human services, over 1 million youths become classified as runaways in any given year and a vast majority of these, lured by the promise of an unfettered life, become homeless.
Digital Point Forums webtalk101 2010
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18 February 2010 at 6: 05 pm wait sorry i just looked it up the runaways is march 19th sorry!
Twilight Lexicon » It’s Offical: Eclipse Trailer to Play in Front of Remember Me! 2010
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If we go to a friend's house, when we hungry, to get something to eat, and happen to get lost in de woods between, we are called runaways, and are punished severely.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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They were then called runaways, or runaway Negroes, and when not caught would stay away from home until driven back by cold weather.
The new man : twenty-nine years a slave, twenty-nine years a free man, 1895
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At the same time, the so-called runaways and brigands regularly received supplies and ammunition from Moscow, as is amply proved by recently-published documents.
Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880
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They're known as runaways, but throwaways seems a more apt description.
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State constitutions have been written and rewritten in convention on hundreds of occasions during our nation's history, with no "runaways" to mention.
A Constitutional Convention Can Rein in Washington James M. LeMunyon 2010
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State constitutions have been written and rewritten in convention on hundreds of occasions during our nation's history, with no "runaways" to mention.
A Constitutional Convention Can Rein in Washington James M. LeMunyon 2010
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State constitutions have been written and rewritten in convention on hundreds of occasions during our nation's history, with no "runaways" to mention.
A Constitutional Convention Can Rein in Washington James M. LeMunyon 2010
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