nub
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Here, perhaps, we are coming to the nub of the issue, the gap of expectations between the governed and those who seek to govern.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
There lies the nub of the dilemma for Qatar and the five other Gulf states facing the brunt of the backlash from a war they tried to avert through diplomacy.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026
But voices were growing for stronger action, saying the monarch was failing to get at the nub of the problem: in the public’s eye, the disgraced prince continues to live…well, like a prince.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
When resting, it appears as a small white nub between their eyes, but when raised, it becomes a hooked, barbed organ covered in teeth.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2025
That was not even the nub of the insult.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
She would run her fingers along the pointed nubs of the beans — almost like someone would press prayer beads between their fingertips — and stare at the black-eyed Susans coming up in her backyard.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2023
I had chewed my chile rellenos to nubs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
Huge trees lay on the ground, their stumps reduced to nubs.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2023
Acting on a hunch that it was the rabbits gnawing the fruits to their nubs, the scientists trained three infrared camera traps on B. yuwanensis fruit bundles in January 2021.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2023
The color seemed darker, what had been traces of a reddish hue were now gone, and only her roots were left, the fine nubs rich and brown.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
