kernel
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“There’s usually a kernel of truth,” he said.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
“There’s always kind of a kernel of truth in what he says, but he goes way beyond it and has all these outlandish claims.”
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
So both of them have a kernel of truth, but none of it is the full truth.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
She expects Asia’s oleochemical product demand to remain healthy from the personal healthcare industry, while higher palm kernel oil prices could pose a risk to earnings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
It has always stood out to me as the kernel of words that totally reflects how I feel about the life experience of an African-American.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
She devised a system that hulled and cleaned corn kernels, and then used mechanical pestles or stamping mechanisms to process the kernels into meal that could be used to bake bread and make other food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
There are also mini Bowser cauldrons capable of holding five to 11 kernels of popcorn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026
Iran's track record of feeding kernels of truth alongside false information has sown doubt among many critics of the regime inside and outside the country.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2026
“I want the theatre to be an anchor,” Brekke tells me as she pours kernels and oil into the popcorn machine that’s been here since the Mayer first opened in 1949.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025
This was a shocking conclusion, but the indivisible kernels of matter in atomic theory got around the problem of Zeno’s paradoxes.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Time was the great millstone, which ground us to dust like kerneled wheat.
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
The sun was just setting when the captain and Chris reappeared bearing gourds full of smoking fish, and sweet sugary yams, and ears of curious small kernelled Indian corn.
From The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades by J. Watson Davis
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