stubby
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Nine university students entered the preliminaries this year, wrestling bulls weighing hundreds of kilograms and sporting hard, stubby horns.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
He wore black turtlenecks, short-sleeved because it was summer, and kept a stubby, utterly earnest ponytail.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2025
These thrust differentials are coordinated with dual flaps on the trailing edges of the stubby wings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
A stubby flutter of greenery at a gas station, and a lofty palm behind an IHOP.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025
We pick the pretty ones, then select some Roman candles and two stubby fountains.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
They're essentially shorter, stubbier, and wider pasta noodles, compared to rigatoni.
From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2022
Passed between multiple chambers by a second, stubbier robotic arm on the rover’s underbelly, the sample was sized up and photographed before finally being hermetically sealed and cached.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 6, 2021
Those sycamores are expanding horizontally, creating a canopy over the stubbier plants.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2021
Do I have certain neural connections that are shorter and stubbier than most people’s?
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 15, 2019
Younger animals, particularly females, are often stubbier and somewhat barrel-shaped behind the head.
From Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic A Guide to Their Identification by David Caldwell
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