nut
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Mia St Hilaire, who had a tree nut allergy, suffered an anaphylactic shock and died after she drank a Twix milkshake at the Pop Inn Cafe in Bermondsey, south-east London, in August 2023.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
At 67, MacLachlan isn’t necessarily a health nut.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
“Cracking that nut and having American Express being relevant to this very large and growing population was a major breakthrough for us,” Le Caillec said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Those analyses detected arecoline inside the dental tissues of the ancient foragers, providing strong evidence that they had consumed betel nut.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
Dad,’ he said to me, ‘Dad, you ought to see this nut they gave me for a roommate.’
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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A previously unreported Binance document, along with other internal records, reveal the nuts and bolts of how Zanjani’s network used the exchange to move money against the wishes of Western governments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Goldie is interested in getting to the nuts and bolts right off the bat, with bullet points of your basic income and spending parameters, such as:
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
The eating pattern emphasizes green leafy vegetables; other vegetables; berries; nuts; whole grains; fish; beans; olive oil; and poultry, along with moderate wine consumption.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
Not banana bread— there was no cinnamon, cardamon, nuts or loaf pan involved.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
I break the acorns open and stuff the bitter nuts into nooks of the tree trunk so the squirrels won’t go hungry.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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"What comes next is the execution risk. There's a lot of details still to be nutted out."
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
Before even making it to the next left, we were pulled over by the PO-PO, who then called for back up and nutted up on us with an additional 6 cop cars!
From Time Magazine Archive
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They are that already—and it's patent-lock nutted throughout, and the engine is that new kind that interlocks.
From The Motormaniacs by Lloyd Osbourne
BST14:17 58 min: Bordeaux reply by going close themselves, Saivet nutting the ball into the sidenetting after racing in front of Liverpool defenders to meet a corner at the near post.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 17, 2015
This was slapstick stuff and Houghton delivered the perfect punchline by nutting the ball into net from 12 yards.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2012
When the Zuni men had their wives and children established on the nutting grounds they returned to their fields.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The nut-stealers take no care in pulling down the boughs, but break them shamefully, destroying entire bushes; and for this reason in many places, where nutting was once freely permitted, it is now rigidly repressed.
From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Richard Jefferies
But when Mr. Bobbsey came in alone and heard that the older twins had not come back from their nutting trip, a worried look came over his face.
From The Bobbsey Twins at Cedar Camp by Laura Lee Hope