runty
Americanadjective
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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
They are sarcastic, my lot, calling a runty little chap like me Big Fellow, but there you are.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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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