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nutshell

[nuht-shel] / ˈnʌtˌʃɛl /








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It’s also the history of markets in a nutshell.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

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

The summit "in a nutshell, will be an opportunity to emphasise that Europe's security is a 360-degree challenge", said a senior EU official.

From Barron's ● May 4, 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

Biomass fuel includes construction waste, orchard cuttings and nutshells, all things that would otherwise be burned in the field or sent to a landfill — thus the designation “carbon neutral.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

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

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


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