marbles
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In the tests, the team dropped marbles into sand that contained scattered pieces of painted gravel representing boulders on Dimorphos.
From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2026
Before you scream, burst out laughing, or think I have lost my marbles, of course, there are very big differences between them.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026
In Ball Sort Puzzle, you are shown a screen featuring several test tubes that contain marbles of various colors.
From Slate • Dec. 28, 2024
“A city is not only monuments and marbles; it is people,” said Giovanni Andrea Martini, a City Council member in Venice.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2024
Mrs. Popper had removed all the stranger objects, leaving only the marbles and checkers, so that Captain Cook now had a nice, orderly little rookery.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
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