nutshell
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Those words, in a nutshell, exemplified the relationship between the team and the city in recent years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
In a nutshell, he has said he will continue to race, but he does not know whether that will be in F1.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
She also provides a nutshell summary for friends and family members wishing to express sympathy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
In a nutshell: My son-in-law plays piano and doesn’t make much money.
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026
The infinite threatened to make all motion impossible, while the void threatened to smash the nutshell universe into a thousand flinders.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Aymium CEO James Mennell said the company’s process works with all species of wood as well as agricultural residues, grasses, nutshells, cherry pits or any other lignocellulosic biomass.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
"We've got loads of nutshells, oyster shells, bits of pipe, broken wine bottles and chicken bones."
From BBC ● May 16, 2025
Indigenous communities in the Southwest discovered and ate piñon nuts from the Pinus edulis tree many years before Europeans arrived, as evidenced by cracked nutshells found at archaeological sites.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2022
And whereas most nutshells include several kinds of cells, walnuts and pistachios only have one kind.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 10, 2021
Underneath the sawdust—and he knew exactly where—were caches of nutshells, seeds, bones, fruit, and gristle.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
