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- noun Plural form of
underrun .
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Examples
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It started fine but when I made a test call I was once again plagued by ALSA underruns.
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It started fine but when I made a test call I was once again plagued by ALSA underruns.
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It started fine but when I made a test call I was once again plagued by ALSA underruns.
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It started fine but when I made a test call I was once again plagued by ALSA underruns.
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Without going into a lot of needless explanation, there's an acceptable percentage of possible overruns and underruns in our printer's contract, which usually errs on the side of overruns.
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Without going into a lot of needless explanation, there's an acceptable percentage of possible overruns and underruns in our printer's contract, which usually errs on the side of overruns.
Archive 2006-10-22 2006
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Out of one hundred and thirty-two trees which have been measured, not one underruns twenty-eight feet in circumference; five range between thirty-two and thirty-six feet; fifty-eight between forty and fifty feet; thirty-four between fifty and sixty; fourteen between sixty and seventy; thirteen between seventy and eighty; two between eighty and ninety; two between ninety and one hundred; two are just one hundred; and one is one hundred and two.
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The prairie rolled in wide undulations as the sea does when the swell of a distant gale underruns a glassy calm.
Masters of the Wheat-Lands Harold Bindloss 1905
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The moonlight turns the lower strata to silver without a stain except where our shadow underruns us.
Actions and Reactions Rudyard Kipling 1900
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It was a direct reversal of the ordinary effect in the ordinary theatre: where the play loses in realism because a current of necessarily recognized, but purposely ignored, antagonistic fact underruns the conventional illusion and compels us to perceive that the palace is but painted canvas, and (even on the largest stage) is only four or five times as high as the _Prince_.
The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals 1881
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