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runty

[ruhn-tee] / ˈrʌn ti /




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Weyerhaeuser, America’s largest private landowner, launched a venture to turn runty trees and sawdust from its mills into a replacement for metallurgical coal used in steel making.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 18, 2025

Enter Dennis France, a runty cop groupie who had befriended Leasure at a Pomona gun show and liked to go on ride alongs with him.

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2024

Think of it as Gotham’s runty younger brother.

From Seattle Times Aug. 25, 2022

Such runty particles wouldn’t produce detectable nuclear recoils.

From Science Magazine Apr. 27, 2022

‘Ho-ho there, runty one! Where is you splatchwinkling away to in such a hefty hurry?’

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl

According to Falklands Conservation, about two dozen breeding pairs nest among the rockhoppers, which look like the macaroni’s runtier twin.

From Washington Post Sep. 1, 2016

In 1917, after taking an M.A. at Columbia, Frank Graham became one of the runtiest marines on record.

From Time Magazine Archive

In World War I, Graham was one of the runtiest of U.S. marines.

From Time Magazine Archive




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