marbles

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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

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

There are levels to the game, and on some levels, you don’t see the colors of the marbles that are farther down in the test tube until they are accessible.

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

The boy could not imagine what was lucky about having to use a walker or losing your hair or your sight or your marbles or having to live in a place like Shady Glen.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman