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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

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

From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023

More recently, treating it using a combination of compost, limestone and cockle shells has been more effective.

From BBC ● May 2, 2018

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

For instance, a perfect cockle, or one good enough for a collection, will not be found on a cockle bank, but solitary ones must be looked for elsewhere.

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.

The deal also benefits shellfish producers after the EU banned British fishermen from selling live mussels, oysters, clams, cockles and scallops to its member states in 2021.

From BBC ● May 19, 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

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

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

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 McCarthy, Justin

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

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 Bell, George

Gay writes: "Showers soon drench the camblet's cockled grain."

From The Journal to Stella by Swift, Jonathan

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 Petherick, Horace William

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

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 Kippis, Andrew

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 Groome, William H. C.

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