nutshell
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In a nutshell: My son-in-law plays piano and doesn’t make much money.
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026
The summit "in a nutshell, will be an opportunity to emphasise that Europe's security is a 360-degree challenge", said a senior EU official.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
Exhilarating, high octane, entertaining - this was the modern brand of rugby which made the Six Nations so captivating in an 80-minute nutshell.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
“In a nutshell, we think risks in private credit are significant,” the analysts wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
The void had weakened Aristotle’s philosophy, and the idea of an infinitely large cosmos helped shatter the nutshell universe.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Aymium CEO James Mennell said the company’s process works with all species of wood as well as agricultural residues, grasses, nutshells, cherry pits or any other lignocellulosic biomass.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
"We've got loads of nutshells, oyster shells, bits of pipe, broken wine bottles and chicken bones."
From BBC ● May 16, 2025
Indigenous communities in the Southwest discovered and ate piñon nuts from the Pinus edulis tree many years before Europeans arrived, as evidenced by cracked nutshells found at archaeological sites.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2022
And whereas most nutshells include several kinds of cells, walnuts and pistachios only have one kind.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 10, 2021
Duke points to a trail of broken nutshells leading to the barn doors.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
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