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nutshell

[nuht-shel] / ˈnʌtˌʃɛl /








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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

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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