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run its course
Proceed to its logical or natural conclusion, as in The doctor said the cold would probably run its course within a week. This idiom employs course in the sense of “an onward movement in a particular path.” [Second half of 1500s]
Example Sentences
"I am limited in what I can say about this incident as due process must be allowed to run its course," he said in a statement to BBC Radio Ulster's The Nolan Show.
That disruption led to a cycle of violence that may now have run its course.
Meanwhile, Ms Bhandare says that, like many online hate campaigns, this too may follow a familiar pattern: "It will run its course and then the people will move on to their next target."
The Canadian people were ready to elect a conservative government after 10 years of Liberal Party leadership that had run its course.
"I arrived in Islamabad on 10 March, 22 days after leaving in the wake of Pulwama. The most serious military exchange since Kargil had run its course in less than a month," Mr Bisaria writes,
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