marbles
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The simulations track how gas in the plumes behaves on very small scales, where individual particles move, collide, and transfer energy in a way similar to marbles bouncing into one another.
From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2025
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
“It's like having a pipe where you stuff marbles in one end, and you keep on stuffing them in because it takes a long time, and eventually the marbles start popping out.”
From BBC • Aug. 6, 2024
“She collected marbles when she was young, and she has willed her entire collection to me.”
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.