shells
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South Korea, in a pact struck with the U.S., has provided large amounts of munition shells for Ukraine’s use.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
The area is littered with massive piles of shells called middens, left by indigenous groups who ate the river’s wild oysters for more than a thousand years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
But fossils usually preserve only durable structures such as shells or skeletal plates.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
Along the roads around Izyum burnt-out shells of petrol stations have become part of the landscape, heaps of mangled, charred metal.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
The snails were the size of my thumbnail, and their swirling, multicolored shells were soft to the touch.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
