shell
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Is it enough to merit the risk of an untested outsider with more than a few red flags, a talent for attracting bad press, and enough jagged edges to crack a lobster shell?
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026
Last year, business owners signaled they weren’t willing to shell out more every year to make it happen.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
Slusky heads Vector Capital, the firm behind the shell company that took Rocket Lab public in 2021.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
"We recovered two pendants: one made from a shell and another from a brown bear tooth," said Tornero.
From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026
At 7:12 a.m. on February 21, 1916, an explosive shell fired from a German long-barreled gun nearly twenty miles away smashed into the thousand-year-old cathedral of Verdun.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
Vocabulary lists containing shell
Structural Engineering
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Engineering - Middle School
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Engineering - High School
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