rutty
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The tests are meant to simulate real world scenarios — from hurtling toward a target to being carted in an Air Force truck over a long, rutty road.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2023
To avoid turning an ankle on a rutty path, he told her to use the team’s facilities.
From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 2021
The fact was that President Kennedy had run into some rutty political detours.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Photo: Joe CermeleIf I know that a beach is soft and rutty, I usually run in low-range four-wheel-drive.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The rutty road had not changed except that the ruts were deeper and the round stones stuck up higher.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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