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shell

[shel] / ʃɛl /


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One key factor determining how much older adults will shell out for health care is the age at which they retire, according to Milliman.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

One result is that a 155mm artillery shell usually includes components from half a dozen countries.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Finish them off with flaky sea salt, then store them in the freezer for 30 minutes or until the outer chocolate shell has hardened.

From Salon Jul. 20, 2026

The newly designed white French loudspeakers suspended over the Bowl stage along with ground-level white cubes of super-effective subwoofers have clean, unobtrusive lines that well fit the shell.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 16, 2026

Ella clapped excitedly as lightning bolt-shaped cracks spread across the shell.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

TNT, the explosive material in artillery shells, is also scarce and Europe now has just a single factory that makes it, in Poland.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Walking along the railroad tracks, she watched Simon Rodia build the Watts Towers’ 17 spires from rebar, shells, tiles, mirrors, soda bottles and cement.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

They lie in mud, shells, ice and rock - fragments of evidence from a time when the Atlantic appears to have changed with startling speed.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

Cubes of delicately folded fettuccine, stuffed shells, slabs of lasagna.

From Salon Jul. 11, 2026

They buried the fire in sand and tossed the shells into the water.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

Megan McColl had no excuse, however, when she shelled Dunkley's stray cut when the England batter had 45.

From BBC Jun. 20, 2026

Listening to Shohei Ohtani’s assessment of his own performance on Wednesday, one would have thought he got shelled.

From Los Angeles Times May 30, 2026

My parents wanted to save my life, and so they shelled out the cash, my father taking on side jobs to pay for it.

From MarketWatch May 27, 2026

During his tenure, the club shelled out more than $2 billion in the transfer market so that Guardiola was never short of talent to bring his vision to life.

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

Dad finally shelled out for central air-conditioning, now that he worked at home, and it was too easy to stay inside and comfortable rather than go and help Charlie wire the tree house.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

Netflix has revealed just how big it is betting on artificial intelligence, shelling out more than half a billion dollars for one of the early AI movers in Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

In a phone call from Kyiv, he noted that the IOC’s announcement coincided with a day of mourning in Ukraine because of recent shelling.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

Mark paid Williams £44,000 - but ended up shelling out an extra £20,000 to get the job finished without him.

From BBC Jun. 28, 2026

"I hope an era will come when people will collectively see high-quality, high-end natto as worth shelling out their money on."

From Barron's Jun. 22, 2026

Hagrid was sitting in an armchair outside his house; his trousers and sleeves were rolled up, and he was shelling peas into a large bowl.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling




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