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Runaway (dependent)
Runaway (dependent): a minor in child welfare or foster care who leaves a state-supervised placement without permission. Covers prevalence, causes, justice-system and permanency risks, and US federal RHY program responses.
Runaway (Kanye West song)
Runaway (Kanye West song): 2010 track featuring Pusha T from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, nine minutes long, opening with a repeated high E piano note, sampled from Backyard Heavies via Pete Rock, with a 35-minute companion short film.
Runaway accretion
Runaway accretion, also called runaway growth, is a stage of planet formation in which the largest bodies in a planetesimal disk grow fastest and detach from the rest.
Runaway Brain
Runaway Brain is a 1995 Disney Mickey Mouse animated short directed by Chris Bailey, in which Dr. Frankenollie swaps Mickey's brain with the monster Julius. Released with A Kid in King Arthur's Court, it was Oscar-nominated and later kept off Disney+.
Runaway Bride (film)
Runaway Bride is a 1999 American romantic comedy directed by Garry Marshall, in which newspaper columnist Richard Gere falls for Julia Roberts, a woman famous for leaving grooms at the altar.
Runaway electron
A runaway electron is a free electron in a plasma that accelerates continuously to relativistic speeds under an electric field, a hazard in tokamaks like ITER.
Runaway June
Runaway June is a Nashville country trio formed in 2015, now Jennifer Wayne, Natalie Stovall, and Stevie Woodward, known for "Buy My Own Drinks" and the album Blue Roses.
Runaway Jury
Runaway Jury (2003) is a Gary Fleder legal thriller adapted from John Grisham's novel, starring John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, and Rachel Weisz in a New Orleans gun-trial jury-manipulation drama.
Runaway Scrape
The Runaway Scrape was the mass flight of Texian settlers east across Texas ahead of Santa Anna's army in spring 1836, ending at San Jacinto.
Runaway star
A runaway star is a star, usually a hot massive O- or B-type star, ejected from its birthplace with a space velocity above 30 km/s.
Runaway Train (film)
Runaway Train is a 1985 American action thriller directed by Andrei Konchalovsky for Cannon Films, starring Jon Voight and Eric Roberts as convicts trapped on a driverless runaway train in Alaska, based on an unproduced Akira Kurosawa screenplay and nominated for three Oscars.
Runaway Train (Soul Asylum song)
Runaway Train is a 1993 Soul Asylum ballad by Dave Pirner from Grave Dancers Union, a No. 5 Billboard Hot 100 hit and 1994 Best Rock Song Grammy winner whose Tony Kaye missing-children video helped find 21 of 36 kids.
Runaway truck ramp
A runaway truck ramp, also called a truck escape ramp, is a road facility beside steep highway downgrades that safely stops vehicles whose brakes have failed.
Runaways (comics)
Runaways, Marvel Comics series by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona, debuted April 16, 2003: six teens, including Nico Minoru and Alex Wilder, discover their parents are the supervillain Pride.
Runaways (TV series)
Marvel's Runaways (Hulu, 2017-2019) is a superhero drama by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage based on Brian K. Vaughan's comic, following six LA teens whose parents run the criminal organization Pride; three seasons, 33 episodes, 84% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Runbang Heavy Machinery (江苏润邦重工)
Runbang Heavy Machinery (润邦股份), also known as Jiangsu Rainbow Heavy Industries, is a Chinese manufacturer of lifting, marine, and ship equipment based in Nantong, Jiangsu, founded in 2003.
Runbook (operations)
A runbook is a documented, step-by-step procedure that an operator or automated system follows to perform a routine task or respond to a known problem, such as restarting instances or containing a security incident.
runc
runc is a command-line tool that creates and runs Linux containers according to the Open Container Initiative (OCI) specification, serving as the default runtime used by Docker, containerd, and CRI-O.
Runcaria
Runcaria, scientifically Runcaria heinzelinii, is a fossil plant reproductive structure from Middle Devonian Belgium, about 385 million years old, and the earliest known evidence of the seed habit.
Runcorn
Runcorn is a Cheshire town on the Mersey at the Runcorn Gap, first recorded as Aethelflaed's 915 burh, later a canal port and chemical town, designated a New Town in 1964, population about 61,000 in 2021.
Runcorn Railway Bridge
The Runcorn Railway Bridge, also known as the Ethelfleda Bridge, is a Grade II listed railway bridge crossing the River Mersey between Runcorn and Widnes, opened in 1868.
Runda Medical
Runda Medical (润达医疗), or Shanghai Runda Medical Technology Co., is a Chinese medical laboratory services group founded in Shanghai in 1999 and listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange since 2015.
Rundāles Novads
Rundāles Novads (Rundāle Municipality), a Latvian municipality in Zemgale of Rundāle, Svitene and Viesturu parishes, 2009–2021, centered on Pilsrundāle and Rundāle Palace; merged into Bauska Municipality on 1 July 2021 despite 95.68% resident opposition.
Rune Factory
Rune Factory is a farming-sim and action-RPG video game series spun off from Harvest Moon, beginning on Nintendo DS in 2006. It adds dungeon combat, monster taming, crafting, and romance to farm life; latest mainline entry is Rune Factory 5 (2022).
Rune Factory 5
Rune Factory 5 (ルーンファクトリー５) is a 3D farming simulation RPG by Hakama/Marvelous, set in Rigbarth, released Switch May 2021 (West March 2022) and Steam July 2022; Metacritic 68, Switch version hampered by frame rate and loading issues.
Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma
Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma is a 2025 Marvelous action RPG/life-sim spin-off set in the eastern land of Azuma, released June 5, 2025 on Switch, Switch 2, and PC, centered on village building, combat, and romance; Metacritic 81.
Rune Gustafsson
Rune Gustafsson (1919-2011), Swedish middle-distance runner for Värnamo SK nicknamed the greyhound from Värnamo; 1946 European 800 m champion in Oslo and 1000 m world record holder (2:21.4, Borås 1946).
Rune Temte
Rune Temte (born 1965, Solbergelva, Norway) is a Norwegian actor, former Strømsgodset footballer, known as Ubba in The Last Kingdom, Bron-Char in Captain Marvel, and Bittelig in Time Bandits, set to play King Gorm in Bloodaxe.
Runeberg Prize
The Runeberg Prize (Finnish: Runeberg-palkinto, Swedish: Runebergspriset) is a Finnish literary prize awarded since 1987 on 5 February in Porvoo for fiction or poetry written in Finnish or Swedish.
RuneQuest
RuneQuest is Chaosium's fantasy tabletop roleplaying game, first published in 1978, set in Greg Stafford's Glorantha. The first skill-based RPG, it uses D100 percentile skills, hit-location combat, and cult-based magic, and founded the BRP system.