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nutshell

[nuht-shel] / ˈnʌtˌʃɛl /








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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

Acrimony, anger and animosity; the Julian Alvarez summer transfer saga in a nutshell.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

But this sorry idea is British industrial decline in a nutshell.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 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

Nicholas of Cusa and Nicolaus Copernicus cracked open the nutshell universe of Aristotle and Ptolemy.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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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