kernel

So both of them have a kernel of truth, but none of it is the full truth.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

But over my three decades of visits—starting as a 13-year-old kid from Washington state—I’ve found much to love and, on every visit, some new kernel of history to obsess over.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

There’s still a kernel of disbelief that this is his job.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026

There is no kernel of truth here: The claims of wrongdoing are fabricated from top to bottom.

From Slate ● Jan. 12, 2026

Aunty Ifeoma laughed, and her children reproduced the throaty sounds, their teeth flashing like the insides of a cracked palm kernel.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It is a bit like heating popcorn kernels in a pan.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Popcorn remains one of the most profitable consumer products; kernels cost pennies per serving, store well, generate little waste and require minimal labor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 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

If plant breeders can learn to trigger or replicate this activation of WUS-D1, it may be possible to create new wheat varieties that produce more kernels per plant.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2025

Seth went over and scooped some kernels for Goldilocks.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

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