shell
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He also enjoyed a successful amateur boxing career as a lightweight at the Penarth club that his brother Bert established to help World War One veterans overcome Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - then called shell shock.
From BBC • May 25, 2026
It also became a classic example of a long-standing chemistry principle stating that stable transition metal complexes typically contain 18 electrons in their outer shell according to formal electron counting methods.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
"I don't feel obliged to tell the world, and actually I just couldn't at the time because I was just a shell of a person," said Minogue.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
“The CIA used a network of shell companies, working through Third World countries, to purchase the ore,” Mr. Dean writes.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
They may be launched outward, into the shell of the nuclear reactor.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
Vocabulary lists containing shell
Structural Engineering
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Engineering - Middle School
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Engineering - High School
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