nutty

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Begin with a modest roux — butter and flour, cooked together until they smell faintly nutty.

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026

Grace dubs his new friend “Rocky,” and their trans-galactically nutty friendship is one of the most endearing relationships between man and thing since Tom Hanks met Wilson the volleyball in “Cast Away.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

So it’s a little nutty, but I do go to the sports section.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

“Things have reached such a nutty point where Caterpillar’s power and energy business has overtaken everything else the manufacturer does in terms of sales growth across all divisions,” the economist wrote.

From Barron's • Dec. 31, 2025

I laughed like a loon at the nutty irony.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos