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kernel

[kur-nl] / ˈkɜr nl /


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The first kernel of a potential agreement emerged that evening, when the CEO met with key representatives of the supervisory-board factions, according to a person with knowledge of the events.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

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

From Barron's Jun. 25, 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

Scenes of Redford and Hoffman taking phone calls and scribbling down notes, or poring over library slips in desperate search of a kernel of a lead, were thrilling.

From Salon Mar. 7, 2026

The kernel, Rutherford concluded, was the atomic nucleus.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

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

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

For their main course, a little farther on, there was a whole field of winter wheat, its kernels newly ripe and soft.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

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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