Mario Batali

All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles.

American Chef

Jane Hawking

We were surrounded by influences and interests that came between Stephen and me. The nurse who became his wife was seeking to undermine me, and there were wider influences, too, following the runaway success of 'A Brief History of Time.

English Author

Ananya Panday

A lot of people body shame me because I am very thin. They say I have a 'boy's body,' or that I look like a skeleton or like a runaway patient. People can never be happy, so you just have to be happy with your body and how you are.

Indian Actress

Christie Brinkley

I've had injuries in my life from things beyond my control: runaway horses, helicopters that decide to crash on mountaintops, boating accidents - things that were out of my hands.

American Model

Carre Otis

I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling.

Nikki Sixx

How lucky can one guy get? I was a runaway, and then I was in one of the biggest bands in the world. I've sold out every arena. I've sold millions and millions of records.

American Musician

Jim Sullivan

It's up to people like us, all of us, to address and talk about things like runaway global warming and how we can use things like remote viewing to save our planet.

English Musician

Rufus Wainwright

One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.

Canadian Musician

Etta James

I really turned into, you know, the real street kid. I was kind of like a runaway, but I had a mother, you know what I mean, and I had a place to stay.

Jeffrey Bernard

One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.

British Journalist

Emphasizes sudden departure. Often hints at avoidance of a difficult situation.

Quick Escape

Can imply liberation, as if breaking free from constraints or control.

Unexpected Liberty

A runaway often acts out of rebellion or to assert independence, especially in context with teens.

Rebellion Act

Runaways are often associated with risk; their safety may be a concern in stories or news.

Safety Concern

Highlights a situation getting worse quickly and unexpectedly, beyond control.

Rapid Increase

Suggests a challenge that requires immediate action to prevent a worsening situation.

Need for Restraint

Refers to a specific safety mechanism in transportation, designed to stop vehicles safely.

Safety Feature

Usually found on steep roads, allowing vehicles that have lost control to stop.

Downhill Road

 What if it involves some cool, ultra-stable compounds that we could use to increase the shelf life in biomedical or industrial applications? Or maybe if we figure out the mechanism that they use to grow so extraordinarily slowly, we could mimic it in cancer cells and slow runaway cell division.

This deep-sea mystery is...

 If just three percent of the carbon locked up in the arctic permafrost is released as the world warms, it would offset all the savings that we need to make, in carbon, over the next 40 years to avoid runaway climate change. We have no choice other than deep and urgent decarbonization.

Rob Hopkins: Transition...

 your currency you can actually print your way out of a crisis sometimes it's not generally recommended there are side effects too yes I mean you'd have runaway inflation in your central bank but yes in theory it's easier if it is in your own country under your own laws

Pulling back the curtain...

 But could they have predicted this unprecedented spike less than halfway through the Earth's life? These human-induced alterations occupying overall less than a millionth of the elapsed lifetime and seemingly occurring with runaway speed? If they continued their vigil,

Sir Martin Rees: Earth...

 renouncing materialism, traditional jobs and university degrees in exchange for a glimmer of adventure. Others come from the underbelly of society, never given a chance to mobilize foster care dropouts, teenage runaways escaping abuse and unforgiving homes.

A glimpse of life on the...

 have been in vain, why throw good money after bad? The poor will always be with you. And since the world will end soon -- if climate change doesn't kill us all, then runaway artificial intelligence will -- a natural response is to enjoy life while we can,

Is the world getting...

 while contributing to runaway seaweed growth— leaving reef ecosystems more fragile than ever. Our reefs are vitally important to both marine and human life. Their unparalleled biodiversity offers unique opportunities for ecotourism,

The big-beaked,...

 and how much talent is going into it. Do you have any worries about that industry, and perhaps the financial industry in general? Kind of being on a runaway train that's -- I don't know -- helping increase inequality?

The mathematician who...

 some of the surprises, the heterodoxies. They lie beyond the visible. Conventional wisdom says set it low, at or near room temperature, and then install a control system to keep it there. Avoid thermal runaway.

Donald Sadoway: The...

 what a charming remark so once the book came out and became a runaway sensation was your life turned upside down

Runaway

Something or someone that has escaped or left quickly.

A person who has left or run away from somewhere, often a young person running away from home.

Often appears as...

Out of control and increasing rapidly.

Often appears as...

A steep slope or long stretch of road allowing vehicles moving downhill to stop safely.

Often appears as...

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