clod
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Whether it's a twig, a pebble or a clod of dirt, the randomness you get on a large scale is the same.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2024
Tau proteins play an important role in stabilizing neurons, but with age, they can start to clod together, forming tangles that are neurotoxic and can jam themselves into the entire intracellular space of a neuron.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2022
The one of Rizzo, which was taken down on June 2, makes him look like a misshapen clod in an awkwardly buttoned jacket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2020
If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were. as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2018
“Here chick,” she called, “here chick, chick, chick, chick, chick, chick—” Ellen slowly reached out with her hoe and broke a clod of dirt into crumbling fragments.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
Even the venal clods burst to complicated life.
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
Digging in soggy conditions can damage a soil’s structure, creating impenetrable clods that hinder roots.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2023
It might form big clods that damage the crop or cut it into pieces.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2022
When you play sports on grass fields, it’s inevitable that you’ll bring home clods of dirt stuck to your cleats: Call them shoevenirs.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2018
They rolled in the dew, they cropped mouthfuls of the sweet summer grass, they kicked up clods of the black earth and snuffed its rich scent.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
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