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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

“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

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

The story of how 23 Chinese cockle pickers lost their lives in Morecambe Bay is to be made into a musical.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2016

Onion skin bond, cockle finish, 9 lb. weight cut into strips for use; tissue paper.

From Mending and Repair of Books by Margaret Wright Brown

The cold-natured among us can warm their cockles with the heated steering wheel, heated front and rear seats and radiant leg warmers built into the Touring package.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

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

Heart cockles and many other marine animals use a special form of calcium carbonate called aragonite to make their shells.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024

In Swansea, he said he had a "really good experience" with cockles and laverbread and Welsh rarebit.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2024

Then as now, the Northwest Coast, thick with fruit and fruits de mer, was a gatherer’s paradise: wild strawberries, wild blueberries, soapberries, huckleberries, thimbleberries, salmonberries; clams, cockles, mussels, oysters; flounder, hake, salmon.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

Love's feeling is more soft and sensible Than are the tender horns of cockled snails.

From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by James H. Head

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

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

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

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

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

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

Will you want me, uncle? because, if not, I shall go out early with Bill Corbett cockling.

From A Chapter of Adventures by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

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