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
In another, weeds frozen under a dusting of snow wilt into a clod of root-tangled soil.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
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
He put his hoe down into the ground with a long even movement and with great care, breaking up the tiniest clod in the soft earth already well cultivated.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
Even the venal clods burst to complicated life.
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
It might form big clods that damage the crop or cut it into pieces.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2022
Prowling in groups of three and four, the glossy birds yanked up clumps of grass and poked through the exposed clods.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 10, 2021
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
Taran shouted at her, but the clods continued flying at a great rate.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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