nutshell
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In a nutshell Damien says a chin-up is performed with your palms facing towards you and the brunt of effort being felt in the bicep.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 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
But this sorry idea is British industrial decline in a nutshell.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 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
Frankenforde as seen from above could fit in a nutshell with room to spare, and the Itty-Bitty Lumleys would be no more than grains of sand within it.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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
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
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