shells
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This very small region is the only place in the world where you can find wild pearl shells in a quantity that can sustain a business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Understanding how viruses construct their protective protein shells, and how that construction might be interrupted, could lead to new antiviral drugs, improved vaccines, and other medical treatments.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
In the same year, Russia had two-and-a-half times more artillery pieces and shells than Ukraine.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
More than a dozen police personnel were deployed at each of the container checkpoints, equipped with protective shields, batons and tear gas shells.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
For the eyes, she had pressed blue shells from a hatched-out robin’s nest into the soft clay.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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