nub
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There lies the nub of the dilemma for Qatar and the five other Gulf states facing the brunt of the backlash from a war they tried to avert through diplomacy.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026
But voices were growing for stronger action, saying the monarch was failing to get at the nub of the problem: in the public’s eye, the disgraced prince continues to live…well, like a prince.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
When resting, it appears as a small white nub between their eyes, but when raised, it becomes a hooked, barbed organ covered in teeth.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2025
The nub of it is - the new UK government now knows it will be dealing with a new administration in Washington within six months, whatever happens.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2024
This theory would certainly explain the tiny nub of bone on each shoulder blade.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
She would run her fingers along the pointed nubs of the beans — almost like someone would press prayer beads between their fingertips — and stare at the black-eyed Susans coming up in her backyard.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2023
From specks the size of dust grains to nubs as big as raisins, the farm produces about 1,000 pounds of seeds a year.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2023
Now both colonies — which had slowly spread, with tiny nubs reaching toward filtering sunlight — were being damaged as water temperatures spiked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
Acting on a hunch that it was the rabbits gnawing the fruits to their nubs, the scientists trained three infrared camera traps on B. yuwanensis fruit bundles in January 2021.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2023
The nubs wiggled like the remnants of amputated wings.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
