kernel

“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

The company’s approach is to form cement into tiny balls, each about the size of a kernel of corn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

There’s something hard in me, crystalline, a kernel of glass.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

You cannot know precisely which kernels will pop and in which order, while some kernels may not pop at all.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

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

“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

Because maize kernels are wrapped inside a tough husk, human beings must sow the species—it essentially cannot reproduce on its own.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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