nut
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Mike Rigby described the restrictions as "a sledgehammer to crack a nut".
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
The company said strong sales of products including Jennie-O ground turkey, Applegate meats, and the Herdez portfolio were partially offset by an exit from non-core private label snack nut items.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 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
"This is the blueprint of my life," said the actor, a lifelong aeroplane nut, who narrates the story.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
This southern group, pleased with the wages and social perks courtesy of Louis Swift and other employers, was a tougher nut to crack.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
If it happens, the fuss will be nuts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 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
Six minutes to play and Frantzdy Pierrot rises above Grant Hanley and nuts one just wide.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
She has learned to decode nutrition labels and developed a taste for salads and nuts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
After that came a wonderful mash that Renn made of late lingonberries and hazelnuts, and finally some beechnuts, which they burst by the fire and peeled to get at the small, rich nuts inside.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
"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
There pups eat pancakes�or starve�and big dogs get no better fare than nutted biscuits.
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
Moreover, he had apparently neglected to wash his hands, and bore the air of one returning from a prolonged nutting ramble.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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
