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runt

[ruhnt] / rʌnt /
NOUN
something small for its kind
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Since his arrest in January, several of Silvey's works - Jasper Jones, Runt and Rhubarb - have been removed from teaching lists in schools in Western Australia and Victoria.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

Wolf pups Stinky, Claudette and Runt venture out into a blizzard to save their parents.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2020

In the Woodbridge area, the Coast Guard found Neabsco Creek too shallow to erect the red and green navigational aids that are installed each spring, Runt said.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2018

The hallucinatory, Joycean night-town through which Pig and Runt roam is effectively conjured by Giles Thomas’s dense sensory soundscape, with lighting to match by Elliot Griggs.

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2018

Runt came to claim the space beside him, and Pax was glad to allow the little fox to groom him.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker




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