runny
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Vulnerable people are being warned not to eat under-cooked or runny eggs when they are eating out because of the developing salmonella outbreak.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Most cases are mild and amount to little more than a cough, fever, and runny nose.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
Covered and gently poached, the whites turned tender while the yolks stayed gloriously runny — the entire point, frankly.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
That finding established a lower limit for how "runny" liquids can be.
From Science Daily ● May 8, 2026
I was confused and frustrated; I hated hearing Aimee say no to me over and over, and I also had a runny nose.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
Molten basalt is runnier than recycled magma and spreads out into broad “shield” volcanoes like Mars’s Olympus Mons.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 12, 2023
If you stir really fast, with more shearing force, the PB gets runnier, while if you stir slowly the PB remains stiff.
From Scientific American ● May 9, 2023
Previous work at Yellowstone revealed two magma reservoirs: one of gloopy magma 3 miles to 10 miles below the surface, and a far more enormous store of runnier magma 12 miles to 30 miles down.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
By that measure, they estimate it is thirty times runnier than the pitch used in Queensland, a million times runnier than glass, and a hundred billion times thicker than water.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2014
The runnier the waste, the more surface area is exposed to the air and the more volatiles escape to reach the nose.
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2013
