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
Such runty particles wouldn’t produce detectable nuclear recoils.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 27, 2022
Is it as heartwarming as a runty, wilted Christmas tree revived by love?
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2020
Four years earlier, Tisdale had given specially minted medals to the school’s state championship cross-country team, including one to a runty 14-year-old named Chris Villani.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2017
The runty, asthmatic-sounding voice seemed to come out of nowhere.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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