kernel
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So both of them have a kernel of truth, but none of it is the full truth.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
“A competent security researcher could go their whole life without finding a Linux kernel vulnerability,” Carlini said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
When she came to “Rooster,” she said, Cristle was a conceptual kernel she teased into a labyrinth.
From Salon ● May 11, 2026
Malhees said in his post that the restriction “hurts” but offered his followers and supporters a kernel of truth: “You can block a passport. You cannot block a voice.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
The woman says, “I brought something—” Even through its newspaper wrapping, Marie-Laure knows it is the model house; it feels as if this woman has dropped a molten kernel of memory into her hands.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Some chains are testing organic kernels, lower-salt offerings and alternative cooking oils.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
These include the Green, Neumann, and Schwarz kernels, which are important tools for solving boundary value problems in physics and engineering.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 7, 2026
She is merely a spectator, thinking kernels of thoughts that will be dashed into the mind’s chasm as her brain grows and develops.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2025
On her website, she sells apricot kernels for their "potential health benefits" along with nutritional supplements, and offers information and advice.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025
He was not sure he wanted to have one of those conversations so many Biafrans had now, passing kernels of blame to others, oiling their own faces with a valor they had never had.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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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