kernel
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“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
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
I was grateful they’d accepted me in their territory, and for the trust they’d shown me, especially the friendly one who’d taken the first kernel.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
Iran's track record of feeding kernels of truth alongside false information has sown doubt among many critics of the regime inside and outside the country.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 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
“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
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
Joe would be coming over soon, and my stomach felt like the inside of a popcorn machine full of exploding kernels.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
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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