A category of exception that occurs at runtime and isn't enforced at compile time.
A category of exception not subject to compile-time checking that can occur at runtime, often stemming from a programming mistake. Subclasses of RuntimeException fall into this category -- things like NullPointerException or ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException, which usually stem from bugs the code could have avoided in the first place if it had accounted for them.
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