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pebble

[peb-uhl] / ˈpɛb əl /




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Yet as I wrangled them into my closet, something kept nagging at me like a pebble in an insole: Bernie Sanders’ eye-rolling dismissal outside the Senate elevator.

From Slate Jun. 5, 2026

The pebble grain Thom Browne shoulder bag, though, was no size comparison to the 10-foot John Baldessari sculpture she stood in front of.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 27, 2026

That’s what the creator of the chain Swig calls spiking Coke, Mountain Dew or Dr Pepper with fruit purées and flavored creams, served in plastic cups stuffed with pebble ice.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 5, 2026

“You throw a pebble in New York, you hit someone in therapy,” she laughs.

From Salon Oct. 24, 2025

“Frith above, Pipkin!” said Speedwell, sniffing at the thorn where it lay on a pebble.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

The spa doesn’t offer foot massages, but there’s a 30-foot-long “jade stone walk,” with half-dome pebbles imported from Korea, on it.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

She carried both pebbles and crystals in her mouth to a wooden platform, where she sorted them into separate groups.

From Science Daily Jul. 15, 2026

Think of this as savory frico brittle: buttery Ritz crackers, broken into uneven pebbles and hunks, tossed with Parmesan, herbs and a little fat, then baked until the cheese melts into crisp, golden clusters.

From Salon Jul. 14, 2026

After Mount Arafat, pilgrims will spend the night in Muzdalifah, where they will collect pebbles for the symbolic "stoning of the devil" ritual in Mina, starting on Wednesday.

From Barron's May 26, 2026

It felt like there were pebbles in my throat.

From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee

Cordoning off their share of terrace was a pane of pebbled glass, through which Kertész could make out the forms of vacationing neighbors.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 20, 2026

Women wearing long wigs and ornate traditional dresses milled around a pebbled courtyard, stopping to snap photos under a pavilion, as the melodious strumming of the Chinese zither played in the background.

From Barron's Nov. 14, 2025

Susan Benson regularly walks on the pebbled beaches of Grand Manan Island in New Brunswick, almost 3,000 miles away from the Stoke-on-Trent town.

From BBC Jan. 16, 2024

The skin shares features with ancient and extant reptiles, including a pebbled surface similar to crocodile skin, and hinged regions between epidermal scales that resemble skin structures in snakes and worm lizards.

From Science Daily Jan. 11, 2024

It was a short walk and stumble from the back of the Infirmary to the pebbled parking lot.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

He kept going back, though, and one day curiosity got the better of him when he noticed someone pebbling the ice.

From BBC Feb. 17, 2026

On the job, Wuthrich walks about 10 kilometers a day; because he does the texture pebbling, Callan gets in 12 kilometers.

From New York Times Feb. 16, 2022

Then the pebbling process is repeated using a nozzle with a larger hole, and another scrapper nips the top of the pebbles off.

From Seattle Times Feb. 16, 2022

The water for the ice is cleaned of impurities by a multi-tank reverse osmosis system; the water for the pebbling has also been de-ionized.

From Seattle Times Feb. 16, 2022

There is no more violent splashing and pebbling, racing, chasing, separating. 

From The Diary of a Goose Girl by Shepperson, Claude A.




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