nutshell
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Those words, in a nutshell, exemplified the relationship between the team and the city in recent years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
There, in a nutshell, is the dilemma around English identity: a mayor seeking to bring her community together but nervous that the nation's flag could be seen as divisive.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
But this sorry idea is British industrial decline in a nutshell.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
In a nutshell: My son-in-law plays piano and doesn’t make much money.
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026
That was the pitch in a nutshell: Home prices didn’t even need to fall.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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
