nut
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At 67, MacLachlan isn’t necessarily a health nut.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
“Cracking that nut and having American Express being relevant to this very large and growing population was a major breakthrough for us,” Le Caillec said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Together, the chemical evidence and distinctive tooth damage suggest that hunter-gatherers in Sulawesi practiced habitual betel nut sucking over long periods, leaving striking physical changes in their teeth.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
When the allegations were published in a 2019 book, the Republican billionaire called her a "nut job" and claimed she had fabricated her case.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
“He’s so weird,” Kendra said, taking a bite of what now tasted like banana nut bread.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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A menu, she argued, should not require cooks to spend 18 hours peeling pine nuts simply because the chef wants to demonstrate technical skill.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
With far less leisure time and diminished income, recreational facilities are turned over to food production, notably small-scale greenhouses and vertical farming for producing varied fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 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
A Costco customer can only buy so many mixed nuts, but a $5 screwdriver sale at Home Depot could—and often did—one day lead to a $100,000 remodel project, or several.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
We would race to see who could open the most nuts the fastest, but it didn’t matter who won, because we all would have some of Mama’s pecan pie after dinner.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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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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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 Richard Jefferies
There was some joking over this dry breakfast, and the more reckless of the party laughed while they ate, as though it had been a nutting frolic.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid