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One way to understand molecular handedness is to think about a screw and a nut.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 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

Which is why the councillor tasked with getting houses built in the county regards the rules as "a sledgehammer to crack a nut".

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

To add some variety, I also like to sprinkle in some extra dark chocolate chips with the granola layer and/or drizzle a bit of nut butter into the fruit layer.

From Salon ● May 24, 2026

And if it was Ground-Daddy’s, I guessed it would be so big she would need both hands to hold it up and it would have a bullet the size of a hickory nut.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

Nearly half of the country’s vegetables and more than three-quarters of its fruits and nuts come from California, according to the state.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

And TV offers more cooking shows than a fruitcake offers nuts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Benedict, from Stamford, Lincolnshire, had asthma and a number of allergies, including eggs, nuts and milk.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

But in a perverse way, I’m glad he said it, even though it’s completely nuts and not remotely supported by precedent or the Constitution.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

The Brazil nuts they had been counting on to sustain them were in short supply, and the piglike tapir, with its prehensile snout, was elusive.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

"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 Osbourne, Lloyd

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

The nut-stealers take no care in pulling down the boughs, but break them shamefully, destroying entire bushes; and for this reason in many places, where nutting was once freely permitted, it is now rigidly repressed.

From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Jefferies, Richard

With a crook to seize the bush as high up as possible—where it bends more easily—not a twig need be broken, and nutting may be enjoyed without doing the least damage.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard