husks
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“Ewwww, there are bugs,” said student Cassie Scott, when she spotted earwigs in the husks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Other forms of Metarhizium are already commonly cultivated around the world on cheap materials like chicken droppings, rice husks and wheat scraps that are readily available after harvest.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2025
The CO2 that emerges into the air is sucked away and then concentrated using charred coconut husks ready to be stored.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2025
Controversial newsmakers—Monica Lewinsky, Tonya Harding, Lorena Bobbitt among them—had the term pinioned to them like a scarlet letter, stripping away their accomplishments and leaving only scorned husks of their real selves.
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2025
There was the crunching of footsteps, the shuffling of drying husks.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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