nut
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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“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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