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“This tells us that all of those nearly identical cancers came from a single cockle in the past,” Metzger said.

From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023

She hopes new cockle research will help explain how changing ocean acidity and marine heat affect the transmission or lethal effects of the cancer, and offer methods to protect other native shellfish.

From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023

The bay, where 23 Chinese cockle pickers died in 2004, is notorious for quicksand, fast-rising tides, swirling currents and deep tidal channels.

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2021

Shell Beach is made up of billions of shells, specifically cockle shells that breed unchecked due to the high salinity of the water and the lack of predators able to survive in all that salt.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 23, 2017

It knows too much to risk having its radula, or tongue, nipped off by putting it between the partly-open valves of the dying cockle.

From Beautiful Shells of New Zealand An Illustrated Work for Amateur Collectors of New Zealand Marine Shells, with Directions for Collecting and Cleaning them by E. G. B. Moss

I considered the monkfish, the mackerel, the cockles.

From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2025

And the vision of Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought or, indeed, Elon Musk being frog-marched off to the hoosegow will warm the cockles of many a heart.

From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2025

To maintain this close bond, heart cockles have mastered the art of indoor gardening, directing light to their otherwise dark interiors.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024

"But there's certain things we do in Wales brilliantly like cockles, oysters, lamb, chorizo and Welsh whisky - and they signposted me to dishes I could try or ingredients I could use in dishes."

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2023

“Bit o' news to warm the cockles of yer hearts.”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Only a comparatively light pressure should be given, or the lining up of the headbands or back will become cockled and detached.

From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Noel Rooke

She had a very sweet, kind face, all cockled with wrinkles like a sheet of crumpled tissue paper, but very beautiful in its age.

From The Dictator by Justin McCarthy

By them the oarage of the wind was taught, And how the quick tail steered the cockled boat.

From Poems New and Old by John Freeman

I never grew weary, either, of gathering stately and graceful green ferns, and finding them all "cockled up," as the phrase went, when I got home.

From Autumn Leaves Original Pieces in Prose and Verse by Anne Wales Abbot

Even in the bedroom there were embroidered pin-cushions, landscapes in cross-stitch, and crosses in folded paper, so elaborately cockled as to show the senseless labor they had cost.

From The Commission in Lunacy by Honoré de Balzac

It is 10 years since the Morecambe Bay cockling tragedy when the notorious tides and channels claimed the lives of 23 Chinese cockle workers.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2014

The book may now be shut up if a waterproof sheet is put at each end to prevent the damp of the cover from cockling the paper.

From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Noel Rooke

More in the foreground, in the same direction, there spreads a troubled cockling sea of the Great Conglomerate.

From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by W. S. (William Samuel) Symonds

Why should she pretend not to know a friend—least of all when she’d been cockling?

From Pixie O'Shaughnessy by William H. C. Groome

I thought all this, and I believe my companions had very similar thoughts as we danced up and down on the short cockling sea.

From Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore by Gordon Browne