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runny

[ruhn-ee] / ˈrʌn i /






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She advised: "Infants, young children, pregnant people and older adults should only eat runny or raw eggs if they have a British Lion mark or are produced under the Laid in Britain egg assurance scheme."

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Most cases are mild and amount to little more than a cough, fever, and runny nose.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026

Symptoms include a rash, which can appear three to five days after onset of illness, cough, runny nose and red and watery eyes, as well as a fever that can be higher than 101 degrees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

Their yolks stay creamy without becoming runny, which means you get all the richness of a soft-boiled egg without worrying about a container full of liquid gold sloshing around in your tote bag.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

The mayor was a corrupt boor, the food turned your guts runny, but he held a good thought for them.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Molten basalt is runnier than recycled magma and spreads out into broad “shield” volcanoes like Mars’s Olympus Mons.

From National Geographic ● Oct. 12, 2023

If you stir really fast, with more shearing force, the PB gets runnier, while if you stir slowly the PB remains stiff.

From Scientific American ● May 9, 2023

Previous work at Yellowstone revealed two magma reservoirs: one of gloopy magma 3 miles to 10 miles below the surface, and a far more enormous store of runnier magma 12 miles to 30 miles down.

From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022

Just know that pudding tends to be runnier than pastry custard, so you use your judgment when you're at the filling stage, lest you wind up crying into your freezer.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2021

By that measure, they estimate it is thirty times runnier than the pitch used in Queensland, a million times runnier than glass, and a hundred billion times thicker than water.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2014


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