as in creek
a natural body of running water smaller than a river
weather forecasters warned that the heavy rains might cause the area's runlets to overflow
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Noun
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It is situated along a creek just off California State Route 2 in Angeles National Forest.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025 -
While traversing steep mountain trails and navigating undulating bent grass greens at Cliffhangers, golfers will drive carts through cascading waterfalls, cross swift flowing creeks, and wind through a cave system.—
Erik Matuszewski,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
Noun
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Smaller brooks, ordinarily not containing flowing water, became raging torrents which could be crossed only by swimming.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
8 July 2025
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Our guides had part paddled and part lugged Wells and me perhaps a quarter of a mile up a tiny brook that was hardly a canoe-length wide.—
Robeson Bailey,
Outdoor Life,
11 June 2025
Noun
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The Union Pacific supplied him with a reliable stream of guests from April through October.—
Tom Zoellner,
AZCentral.com,
25 July 2025
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For example, while voice AI typically excels at processing vast streams of routine data and executing predictable tasks with speed, humans excel at contextual judgment, ethical reasoning and emotional intelligence.—
Naresh Prajapati,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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“Runlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/runlet. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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