kernel

“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

When she came to “Rooster,” she said, Cristle was a conceptual kernel she teased into a labyrinth.

From Salon ● May 11, 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

You start looking around for a way out but, y’know, you’re a kernel.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell

Little did Russia and Germany know they were forming the kernels of nation-states that would outlast their own empires.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Then we tumble into the realm of inspirational gurus and thought leaders, where breathwork and manifesting meet motivational speak, popping with familiar verbal kernels like “sparking joy” and “habit formation.”

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

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

There are also mini Bowser cauldrons capable of holding five to 11 kernels of popcorn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026

The quiet river started flowing loudly through rocks and palm kernels.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

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