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, since 2012, the yen fell 51% and inflation is only 20% higher.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
The critique, in a nutshell: Gilgeous-Alexander, aka SGA, is a little too excellent to be exciting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
"In a nutshell, anything that's not in the Annex 1 directives, the court is basically saying we're not interested in hearing that," Prof Murray told the BBC.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Another philosophy vied with the atomic theory, and instead of posing such bizarre concepts as the infinite vacuum, it turned the universe into a cozy nutshell.
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
Sammy had crazy bizarre teeth like rocks, and he would crack the nutshells so we could eat the insides.
From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata
