stubby
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Nine university students entered the preliminaries this year, wrestling bulls weighing hundreds of kilograms and sporting hard, stubby horns.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
“They’re snitches,” he said, raising a stubby thermal scope to one eye.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
You don't get a tick in the box if the name on the ballot paper means nothing to the voter clutching their stubby pencil in the voting booth.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2025
He skins Walking Mushrooms with care, tosses their stubby feet into a hot pot with an eye for balance and umami.
From Salon ● May 12, 2025
The stubby little hairs above his lip bobbed up and down.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
Compared with migratory birds in temperate regions, sedentary birds in the tropics have stubbier wings, poorer flight, and more restricted ranges.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 16, 2022
They're essentially shorter, stubbier, and wider pasta noodles, compared to rigatoni.
From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2022
Passed between multiple chambers by a second, stubbier robotic arm on the rover’s underbelly, the sample was sized up and photographed before finally being hermetically sealed and cached.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 6, 2021
Those sycamores are expanding horizontally, creating a canopy over the stubbier plants.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2021
Younger animals, particularly females, are often stubbier and somewhat barrel-shaped behind the head.
From Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic A Guide to Their Identification by Caldwell, David
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