kernel

“There’s usually a kernel of truth,” he said.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

So both of them have a kernel of truth, but none of it is the full truth.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

But over my three decades of visits—starting as a 13-year-old kid from Washington state—I’ve found much to love and, on every visit, some new kernel of history to obsess over.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

Is there any kernel of truth to anything she’s saying?

From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2026

The kernel, Rutherford concluded, was the atomic nucleus.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Elsewhere, chain gelato brand Snowflake makes a sweetcorn-flavoured "Snow Cob", while more mainstream, high-end supermarkets and chocolate brands are selling corn kernels covered in chocolate.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

She devised a system that hulled and cleaned corn kernels, and then used mechanical pestles or stamping mechanisms to process the kernels into meal that could be used to bake bread and make other food.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

She is merely a spectator, thinking kernels of thoughts that will be dashed into the mind’s chasm as her brain grows and develops.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2025

The parasitic isopod Zeaione everta has raised structures on the female's back that resemble popped corn kernels.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025

Nathan didn’t dare to re-sow the traditional kernels, at least not until the horned toad had been dealt with.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

Time was the great millstone, which ground us to dust like kerneled wheat.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

The sun was just setting when the captain and Chris reappeared bearing gourds full of smoking fish, and sweet sugary yams, and ears of curious small kernelled Indian corn.

From The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades by J. Watson Davis