nut
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Yet, as Lucas is a legendary lug nut, these hover cars and spaceships whisk you full speed into his creative process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
December 28: Boeing urges airlines to undertake inspections after an international operator discovered a bolt with a missing nut while performing routine maintenance.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
One way to understand molecular handedness is to think about a screw and a nut.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 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
He had heard the neighbors talking about her; the story was that her parents had given her to a visiting army officer, as one would give kola nut to a guest.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Tractors zoom around, fallen nuts are collected, and trucks cart off the bins of almonds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
While some primates use stone tools to access food, for instance to crack open nuts, accumulative stone throwing is a rare example of stone tool use in a social context.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Head to the grocery store and you’ll find pickle-flavored chips, nuts and pretzels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
But you can also get your protein from lentils, nuts, milk, tofu and cheese too.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
But there were times when he came back with very little: a few nuts and some half-rotten root vegetables.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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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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But though the sun had shone brightly when they had started on their nutting trip, they had not gone far before the sky began to be overcast with clouds.
From The Bobbsey Twins at Cedar Camp by Laura Lee Hope
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