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She hopes new cockle research will help explain how changing ocean acidity and marine heat affect the transmission or lethal effects of the cancer, and offer methods to protect other native shellfish.

From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023

“This tells us that all of those nearly identical cancers came from a single cockle in the past,” Metzger said.

From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023

Shell Beach is made up of billions of shells, specifically cockle shells that breed unchecked due to the high salinity of the water and the lack of predators able to survive in all that salt.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 23, 2017

Mike Roberts, 74, who works at the soon-to-close Liverpool Coastguard Station, remembers the "whole horror" of the attempted rescue of 24 Chinese cockle pickers from Morecambe Bay in 2004.

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2015

It is over an inch in length, and usually found on cockle banks in harbours.

From Beautiful Shells of New Zealand An Illustrated Work for Amateur Collectors of New Zealand Marine Shells, with Directions for Collecting and Cleaning them by E. G. B. Moss

The cold-natured among us can warm their cockles with the heated steering wheel, heated front and rear seats and radiant leg warmers built into the Touring package.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

I considered the monkfish, the mackerel, the cockles.

From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2025

And the vision of Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought or, indeed, Elon Musk being frog-marched off to the hoosegow will warm the cockles of many a heart.

From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2025

The team said more work is needed to understand what, if anything, the heart cockles are doing with this image projection superpower.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024

Then as now, the Northwest Coast, thick with fruit and fruits de mer, was a gatherer’s paradise: wild strawberries, wild blueberries, soapberries, huckleberries, thimbleberries, salmonberries; clams, cockles, mussels, oysters; flounder, hake, salmon.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Only a comparatively light pressure should be given, or the lining up of the headbands or back will become cockled and detached.

From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Noel Rooke

He further carried this out afterwards in the application of the deeper coloured, and usually softer, varnishes, which when manipulated by other masters of the same school, have frizzled or cockled from some cause.

From Antonio Stradivari by Horace William Petherick

Plancine's swimming eyes looked down, looked upon a litter of perished rags of paper, and, lying in the midst of the rubbish, an ancient stained and cockled miniature of a powdered Louis Seize coquette.

From At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes

Even in the bedroom there were embroidered pin-cushions, landscapes in cross-stitch, and crosses in folded paper, so elaborately cockled as to show the senseless labor they had cost.

From The Commission in Lunacy by Honoré de Balzac

But even laying aside the question of the coagulation of the albumen, the paper, unless it is ironed, remains so "cockled up," that it is not only unsightly, but very difficult to use.

From Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell

It is 10 years since the Morecambe Bay cockling tragedy when the notorious tides and channels claimed the lives of 23 Chinese cockle workers.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2014

The book may now be shut up if a waterproof sheet is put at each end to prevent the damp of the cover from cockling the paper.

From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Noel Rooke

I thought all this, and I believe my companions had very similar thoughts as we danced up and down on the short cockling sea.

From Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore by Gordon Browne

This makes a joint free of cockling, and when dry the inking can be completed across the joint.

From How to Observe in Archaeology by Various

Will you want me, uncle? because, if not, I shall go out early with Bill Corbett cockling.

From A Chapter of Adventures by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty