runty

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Adjective
  • Full Sun Soil Type: Medium Moisture, Well-draining, Average Fertility Soil pH: Mildly Acidic to Neutral (6.0-7.2) With true blue flowers and silvery foliage, dwarf morning glory looks stunning spilling out of containers or scrambling along the garden floor.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 11 July 2024
  • Breeders can plant the trees closer together to make test plots more efficient, and boughs grafted to a dwarf rootstock start producing apples two to three years earlier than those grafted to a traditional rootstock.
    Laura Helmuth, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Honda helpfully put a tiny shelf below the screen to brace your finger on while trying to hit the right icon.
    Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Food Review: Aren’t tiny restaurants the best restaurants?
    Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The forests will be scrubbier and more open.
    Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Just to the south, in a clearing between stands of scrubby black spruce, a cow moose spotted the women and leapt to its feet, dashing away to the southeast and into a 32-acre area that the city is working to turn into a new snow dump site in West Anchorage.
    Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Nov. 2021
Adjective
  • The latter performance won a Silver Bear for Best Acting in a Leading Role at the Berlin Film Festival, so Stan could have the teeniest leg up in that respect.
    Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 28 June 2024
  • But now they are also being encouraged to gaze down at the painstaking details of the dolls’ house, with some of its teeniest artifacts placed in low cases to benefit close inspection.
    Megan Specia, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
Adjective
  • The monsters are tall and impressively athletic-looking, with devil ears and animatronic snouts that snap like miniature crocodile jaws.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Dec. 2024
  • His miniature self walks to the last room on the right, which is almost entirely empty.
    Barry Levitt, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The booklouse, which has not been found outdoors in Alaska, feeds on teensy bits of mold that form on formerly living things, including food.
    Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Feb. 2023
  • And After That, a teensy McAllen, Tx.-based clothing company that inventively—and often cheekily—pays homage to movies and bands with shirts, T-shirts and hoodies.
    Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • But Tyrannosaurus was hardly the only dinosaur to evolve itty bitty appendages.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
  • Now, even water comes in those itty bitty little bottles just right for tiny hands.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2021
Adjective
  • At $1 per month ($12 per year) this ranges from a mere 0.08% for the lower class to an infinitesimal 0.00048% for the upper class.
    Robert G. Eccles, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • No, the expedition hadn’t deployed underwater video, and the chances would have been infinitesimal anyway.
    Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Runty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/runty. Accessed 11 Dec. 2024.

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