nugget
Example Sentences
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Ford dreamed up the atomic-age Nucleon, powered by a tiny nugget of uranium and incidentally requiring tons of lead shielding to protect anyone who came within a football field of the thing.
From Los Angeles Times
These nuggets come from investors’ clearest look yet at corporate taxes, thanks to detailed disclosures required by new accounting rules.
Ironically, heavily processed and oddly shaped chicken patties, tenders and nuggets were popular so long as they claimed to contain 100% white meat.
At the ball, servers carrying trays of smoked salmon and caviar on an Oscar-shaped cracker and chicken nuggets with caviar squeezed through the crowd.
From Los Angeles Times
There are noteworthy nuggets, as we set out here, and the revelations about his payoff will be, to many, enraging.
From BBC
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