pellet
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"We now can establish that a pellet that came from the buckshot from the defendant's Mossberg pump-action shotgun was intertwined with the fiber of the vest of the Secret Service officer," Pirro said.
From Barron's ● May 3, 2026
Goodnough’s team took delivery of Cache’s reactor and pellet storage system just last week, and has already begun evaluating how well it can heat a single building.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
The pieces appear to be part of a round plastic pellet that was filled with a pinkish powder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2026
The resulting plastic pellet could then be removed every few dozen washes and thrown away with general waste.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2025
The plastic pellet bounces off the center of the target and rolls along the ground.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
With these cookers, set the internal temperature and the computer takes over, feeding small compressed hardwood pellets into the fire as needed to hold the target heat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The team also suggested that owl pellets may have served as fuel, which could explain why the tiny rodent bones contained within them show signs of burning.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026
As they process that seawater, excess calcium and carbonate ions are removed from the body and released as solid calcium carbonate pellets called ichthyocarbonates.
From Science Daily ● May 31, 2026
Government Solutions, which is partially owned by foreign companies Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and French state-owned firm EDF, won $8.8 million to make uranium pellets.
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
The pellets under the skin of Boxer’s leg smarted painfully.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
The scientists calculated the balance of nutrients in edible portions of whole wild fish, used within pelleted salmon feed in Norway, compared to the farmed salmon fillets.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
When the grizzly family found the pelleted livestock grain they gorged for about an hour.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 28, 2020
Shrimp are fed a pelleted diet and are raised until they’re the proper size.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 10, 2020
BAC DNA was pelleted by centrifugation at 13,000 r.p.m. and 4 °C for 20 min.
From Nature ● May 8, 2018
Any visible expression of nature would surely be pelleted with his jeers.
From Men, Women, and Boats by Crane, Stephen
When monsoon rains start pelleting down once again, they cover themselves with colorful plastic sheets, some laughing, singing and dancing as the water seeps through, leaving them soaking wet.
From US News ● Aug. 12, 2014
She stayed in Cuba four weeks, kept pelleting Castro with the pleas of her contacts.
From Time Magazine Archive
Patera Covers.—In cases where the style of ornament permits of it, patera covers are used instead of pelleting.
From Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by Fairham, William
