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run on

• continue without stopping; go on longer than is expected.
• "the story ran on for months"
Similar: continue, go on, carry on, last, keep going, extend, stretch,
• (of a person's mind or a discussion) be preoccupied or concerned with a particular subject.
• "my thoughts always ran too much on death"
Similar: be preoccupied with, be concerned with, dwell on, focus on, be focused on, revolve around, centre around, be dominated by, be fixated with,
• continue on the same line as the preceding matter.

run-on adjective

• denoting a line of verse in which a sentence is continued without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.
• (of a sentence) containing two or more independent clauses that are not separated by a colon, semicolon, or appropriate conjunction.
• "the email is full of childish errors, run-on sentences, and randomly capitalized words"


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