nutshell
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Those words, in a nutshell, exemplified the relationship between the team and the city in recent years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
That, in a nutshell, explains the chasm between an ebullient stock market and anxious public.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
"In a nutshell, anything that's not in the Annex 1 directives, the court is basically saying we're not interested in hearing that," Prof Murray told the BBC.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
The summit "in a nutshell, will be an opportunity to emphasise that Europe's security is a 360-degree challenge", said a senior EU official.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
Thus creatures could only inhabit the nutmeat in the center of the nutshell cosmos.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Aymium CEO James Mennell said the company’s process works with all species of wood as well as agricultural residues, grasses, nutshells, cherry pits or any other lignocellulosic biomass.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
"We've got loads of nutshells, oyster shells, bits of pipe, broken wine bottles and chicken bones."
From BBC ● May 16, 2025
Indigenous communities in the Southwest discovered and ate piñon nuts from the Pinus edulis tree many years before Europeans arrived, as evidenced by cracked nutshells found at archaeological sites.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2022
And whereas most nutshells include several kinds of cells, walnuts and pistachios only have one kind.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 10, 2021
Underneath the sawdust—and he knew exactly where—were caches of nutshells, seeds, bones, fruit, and gristle.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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