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nut

[nuht] / nʌt /
NOUN
seed of fruit, vegetable
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NOUN
crazy, overenthusiastic person
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
sane person


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Lu of Australian National University said China successfully tempered excess capacity in its steel and aluminum industries in the 2010s, but cars were a harder nut to crack.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

While most people may be aware of nut allergies or the risk of shock from insect stings, other common foods can also pose a risk to some people.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

McFARLAND, Calif. — A white SUV drives past fields of grapes and nut trees and pulls to a stop on the dirt shoulder across the highway from a strange tableau:

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Those analyses detected arecoline inside the dental tissues of the ancient foragers, providing strong evidence that they had consumed betel nut.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

Some of them even tasted like baked goods, like blueberry muffins and banana nut bread.

From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks

One possibility involves the Mediterranean-style diet, which emphasizes foods such as fish, vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and olive oil.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

To keep pesto interesting: we’ll switch between pine nuts and cashews.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Goldie is interested in getting to the nuts and bolts right off the bat, with bullet points of your basic income and spending parameters, such as:

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

"Every day I wake up and it's doing something that I didn't even know was a goal I could have had. It's crazy, it's nuts."

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Zohra hands me the bowl of nuts, but I wave it away.

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan

"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

“We’ll help!” added Flossie and Freddie, deserting 86 the pine-needle slide for the joys of nutting.

From The Bobbsey Twins at Cedar Camp by Laura Lee Hope

"I have often gone hazel nutting when I was a boy," said her uncle.

From How We are Fed A Geographical Reader by James Franklin Chamberlain


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