runny
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Most cases are mild and amount to little more than a cough, fever, and runny nose.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
"It stings the nose, makes you cough and have a runny nose, and makes you unable to breathe... We were forced to leave the house because we couldn't take it anymore."
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 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
Covered and gently poached, the whites turned tender while the yolks stayed gloriously runny — the entire point, frankly.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
A tasteless soyburger, a lump of runny mashed potatoes, and some unrecognizable form of cobbler for dessert.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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
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
The runnier the waste, the more surface area is exposed to the air and the more volatiles escape to reach the nose.
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2013
