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It was a shell game so profitable that no one had any interest in naming it.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

I stop and pick it up, its shell covered in a toupee of inch-long algae, and deliver it to its intended destination.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

Finish them off with flaky sea salt, then store them in the freezer for 30 minutes or until the outer chocolate shell has hardened.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

The newly designed white French loudspeakers suspended over the Bowl stage along with ground-level white cubes of super-effective subwoofers have clean, unobtrusive lines that well fit the shell.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026

Ella clapped excitedly as lightning bolt-shaped cracks spread across the shell.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

Helmut Rauch, chief executive of the defense unit at Diehl Group, a German company making missiles and artillery shells, said that despite Europe’s recent increases in explosive production, the supply of RDX is a concern.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

In Chapineria, west of Madrid, the flames had torn through dozens of vehicles at an industrial park, leaving charred shells behind, AFP photographers saw.

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

Walking along the railroad tracks, she watched Simon Rodia build the Watts Towers’ 17 spires from rebar, shells, tiles, mirrors, soda bottles and cement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

They lie in mud, shells, ice and rock - fragments of evidence from a time when the Atlantic appears to have changed with startling speed.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

“I love that you included the golden ratio and the shells on the beach with the holes in them,” Ms. Solomon said about the moon snail.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

Weeks later, in July 2014, Drapatiy coordinated the safe withdrawal of 260 troops from an area that was encircled and relentlessly shelled for weeks by Russian forces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Megan McColl had no excuse, however, when she shelled Dunkley's stray cut when the England batter had 45.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

Listening to Shohei Ohtani’s assessment of his own performance on Wednesday, one would have thought he got shelled.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026

My parents wanted to save my life, and so they shelled out the cash, my father taking on side jobs to pay for it.

From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026

She went back inside and came out a few minutes later with a pan of peas to be shelled.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

Netflix has revealed just how big it is betting on artificial intelligence, shelling out more than half a billion dollars for one of the early AI movers in Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

In a phone call from Kyiv, he noted that the IOC’s announcement coincided with a day of mourning in Ukraine because of recent shelling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

Mark paid Williams £44,000 - but ended up shelling out an extra £20,000 to get the job finished without him.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

Meet the World Cup fans shelling out thousands for once-in-a-lifetime trips — and some don’t even have tickets to games.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

Hagrid was sitting in an armchair outside his house; his trousers and sleeves were rolled up, and he was shelling peas into a large bowl.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling