nutshell
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Those words, in a nutshell, exemplified the relationship between the team and the city in recent years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Acrimony, anger and animosity; the Julian Alvarez summer transfer saga in a nutshell.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
She also provides a nutshell summary for friends and family members wishing to express sympathy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
In a nutshell: My son-in-law plays piano and doesn’t make much money.
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026
Instead, here she was on the good ship Acorn, in a bunk that was as small and hard as a nutshell and not nearly as cozy as a squirrel nest in the treetops would be.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
Biomass fuel includes construction waste, orchard cuttings and nutshells, all things that would otherwise be burned in the field or sent to a landfill — thus the designation “carbon neutral.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Aymium CEO James Mennell said the company’s process works with all species of wood as well as agricultural residues, grasses, nutshells, cherry pits or any other lignocellulosic biomass.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
"We've got loads of nutshells, oyster shells, bits of pipe, broken wine bottles and chicken bones."
From BBC ● May 16, 2025
Indigenous communities in the Southwest discovered and ate piñon nuts from the Pinus edulis tree many years before Europeans arrived, as evidenced by cracked nutshells found at archaeological sites.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2022
Sammy had crazy bizarre teeth like rocks, and he would crack the nutshells so we could eat the insides.
From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata
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