run across

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Verb

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.

Translations

• Russian: наткнуться

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