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“When our team went back a year later, it was just covered in cockle shells,” Barber said.

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

He was speaking from Rio where he is installing his follow-up work, 10,000 Lives, about the world of the Chinese cockle pickers who drowned on Morecambe Bay in 2004.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 11, 2016

The story of how 23 Chinese cockle pickers lost their lives in Morecambe Bay is to be made into a musical.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2016

It knows too much to risk having its radula, or tongue, nipped off by putting it between the partly-open valves of the dying cockle.

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 Moss, E. G. B.

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

To maintain this close bond, heart cockles have mastered the art of indoor gardening, directing light to their otherwise dark interiors.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024

"But there's certain things we do in Wales brilliantly like cockles, oysters, lamb, chorizo and Welsh whisky - and they signposted me to dishes I could try or ingredients I could use in dishes."

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2023

Large cockles can filter three liters per hour and this concentrating effect was so powerful that we found antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the cockles even when we couldn't detect them in water samples.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2023

“Bit o' news to warm the cockles of yer hearts.”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

The leaves of a vellum book that have become cockled from damp or other causes may be flattened by damping them, pulling them out straight, and allowing them to dry under pressure.

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

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 Balzac, Honoré de

Love's feeling is more soft and sensible Than are the tender horns of cockled snails.

From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by Head, James H.

By them the oarage of the wind was taught, And how the quick tail steered the cockled boat.

From Poems New and Old by Freeman, John

I never grew weary, either, of gathering stately and graceful green ferns, and finding them all "cockled up," as the phrase went, when I got home.

From Autumn Leaves Original Pieces in Prose and Verse by Abbot, Anne Wales

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 Rooke, Noel

More in the foreground, in the same direction, there spreads a troubled cockling sea of the Great Conglomerate.

From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)

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

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

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 Browne, Gordon