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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

Following the 2004 cockle picking tragedy in Morecambe Bay, anyone who provides workers to farms should have a licence from the Gangmasters Licensing Authority.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2015

Whiles I fear they have been shut in there by early storms, or have gone out pleasuring in some cockle shell of a boat and got——" "No, no, Aunt.

From Playing With Fire by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

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

She was also the subject of a traditional folk song, which tells the story of a fishmongers' daughter who sold cockles and mussels from a wheelbarrow.

From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2025

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 cockles of Billy’s heart, at any rate, were glowing coals.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

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

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 Anne Wales Abbot

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

She had a very sweet, kind face, all cockled with wrinkles like a sheet of crumpled tissue paper, but very beautiful in its age.

From The Dictator by Justin McCarthy

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

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

Here was another hair's breadth escape; for it was nearly high water, and there ran a short cockling sea, which if the ship had struck, must very soon have bulged her.

From Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Andrew Kippis

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

Why should she pretend not to know a friend—least of all when she’d been cockling?

From Pixie O'Shaughnessy by William H. C. Groome