Run
Spearhead
Spearhead verb - To serve as leader of.
Usage example: unofficially at least, Martin Luther King spearheaded the civil rights movement
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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The American commander knows the German forces are low on fuel, so he sends a group of American tanks on a suicide mission to attack the Panzer spearhead and "run them out of gas".
Source: Epic Tank-on-Tank Action -
Sluggy Freelance: In "The Research and Development Wars — Spearhead", when Riff, Sam, Bun-bun and Slaughteresa are on their way to rescue Torg and run into the main force of the Chinese mutants, Teresa uses some smoke bombs.
Source: Smoke Out -
For example, the Third Doctor sees himself in the mirror at the start of "Spearhead from Space", is mortified, but soon declares it's not all bad and spends the rest of his run acting convinced he's gorgeous.
Source: Inferiority Superiority Complex
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Spearhead and Run. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/run/spearhead
Run & Spearhead. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/run/spearhead>.
Spearhead or Run. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/run/spearhead.
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