nut
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At 67, MacLachlan isn’t necessarily a health nut.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Evidence for betel nut consumption can now be traced into the Late Pleistocene, long before the development of agriculture.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
Baroness Shas Sheehan, who chairs the committee, said the overuse of the treatments on household pets was "the equivalent of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut".
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
A sign in a glass display case says the apfel nusskuchen, or apple nut cake, was “handmade with love” by a woman named Zora.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Candied sweet potatoes, creamed onions, cranberry nut salad, corn pudding, gravy, cheese bread, and not one but two kinds of stuffing.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
I know: it’s college football, and it’s nuts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Serine occurs in foods such as soybeans, eggs, fish, and nuts, while the form incorporated into dietary proteins is L-serine.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
While “The Pineapple” flirts with horror, torture and conspiracy nuts, it also provides space for Jimmy Buffett’s “Margaritaville.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
On Thursday, government data showed that costs for gasoline, jet fuel, home heating oil, alongside candy and nuts, also rose.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
To the east all the way to the edge of the Deep Forest, lay the vast sunlit woods where the prey grow fat in autumn, and berries and nuts are plentiful.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
"What comes next is the execution risk. There's a lot of details still to be nutted out."
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
Before even making it to the next left, we were pulled over by the PO-PO, who then called for back up and nutted up on us with an additional 6 cop cars!
From Time Magazine Archive
They are that already—and it's patent-lock nutted throughout, and the engine is that new kind that interlocks.
From The Motormaniacs by Lloyd Osbourne
BST14:17 58 min: Bordeaux reply by going close themselves, Saivet nutting the ball into the sidenetting after racing in front of Liverpool defenders to meet a corner at the near post.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 17, 2015
This was slapstick stuff and Houghton delivered the perfect punchline by nutting the ball into net from 12 yards.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2012
When the Zuni men had their wives and children established on the nutting grounds they returned to their fields.
From Time Magazine Archive
Do love her and take her back into your trust, and may I go now to tell her she can go nutting and about Saturday, and may I hurry up?”
From Dorothy at Oak Knowe by Evelyn Raymond
“Part of this wood belongs to Buck Looker’s father, and perhaps he’d have some objection to our nutting here.”
From The Radio Boys at Mountain Pass The Midnight Call for Assistance by Allen Chapman
