runty
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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 little fox stepped out along the branch, tail poised for balance, then coiled himself and leaped out over the heads of the earthbound foxes.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
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
