variants or runlet
as in barrel
an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages the wine was transferred to rundlets for further aging in the cellar

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Noun
  • If the conflict eliminates Iranian oil from the market, oil prices could spike by about $7.50 a barrel, according to Andy Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates, a consulting firm.
    John Liu, CNN Money, 13 June 2025
  • During the Iranian Oil Crisis, global inventories built as much as 3 million barrels a day or more, as companies and large consumers chased every available barrel, the spot market trade all but disappeared, and prices tripled: not when Iranian oil production was shut in by unrest.
    Michael Lynch, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
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    Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
  • Tasks included repairing barbed wire fences, castrating animals and laying irrigation pipes, the suit alleges.
    Tyler Kingkade, NBC news, 12 June 2025
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  • The similarities suggest the mechanism may be a common trigger for tuns and other forms of hardy dormancy, a phenomenon that scientists call cryptobiosis.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Under these forms of stress, tardigrades curl up into a temporary, protective state of dormancy called a tun.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2024
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“Rundlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rundlet. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.

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