nutshell
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It’s also the history of markets in a nutshell.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Those words, in a nutshell, exemplified the relationship between the team and the city in recent years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Acrimony, anger and animosity; the Julian Alvarez summer transfer saga in a nutshell.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
In a nutshell, since 2012, the yen fell 51% and inflation is only 20% higher.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
In a nutshell, here's how the process worked and exactly what we were up against.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
Biomass fuel includes construction waste, orchard cuttings and nutshells, all things that would otherwise be burned in the field or sent to a landfill — thus the designation “carbon neutral.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
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
Duke points to a trail of broken nutshells leading to the barn doors.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
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