nugget

Example Sentences

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“I had no idea that eating a 10-piece chicken nugget on a roller coaster would be a national headline, but here we are,” Ferrell told Fox 8 News in Cleveland.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

They include a nugget from the California gold rush; an 1879 lightbulb by Thomas Edison; a mainframe component from ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer that was built in 1946 and weighed 30 tons.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

It’s notable that Vance saved this nugget about demons for Johnson, who works with TPUSA, which bills itself as a youth outreach organization.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2026

Since the match against Newcastle on 18 January, dad Tom said people had stopped him the street to call him a "chicken nugget thief".

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026

I cried as I wheeled and ran out of there, hugging the private precious nugget of the Plant to myself.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly