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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kennings
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Those fractions may look small, but ozone chemistry is anything but linear.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
25 Oct. 2025 -
There's also Equals, a mathematics brain teaser card game to the order of operations and fractions.—
Craig Shoup,
Nashville Tennessean,
24 Oct. 2025
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In 1867, Lord Kelvin envisioned atoms as intricate knots in the aether.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Oct. 2025
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By 2030, China’s nuclear capacity is set to surpass that of the United States, the first country to split atoms to make electricity.—
Brad Plumer,
New York Times,
22 Oct. 2025
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And these nutshells that are now all restored have been used for that purpose for more than eight decades.—
Katie Hafner,
Scientific American,
10 Sep. 2025
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Pecans Pecans are loaded with polyphenolic compounds, especially ellagic acid and flavonoids, which help neutralize free radicals, unstable molecules that lead to cell damage.—
Lauren Panoff,
Verywell Health,
30 Oct. 2025
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By studying these molecules and investigating why the tomatoes have reverted to ancient genes, scientists could design better crops for eating, stronger pesticides or even medicine, Jozwiak said.—
Taylor Nicioli,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
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Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
30 Oct. 2025
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However focused on the action the show might be, in these moments, snippets of character shine through.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
29 Oct. 2025
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The yawning gap between data-center expenditures and the rest of the economy has caused whispers of bubble to rise to a chorus.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
30 Oct. 2025
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There was affairs and divorces and whispers and gossip, all the stuff that makes good bands break up.—
Alan Light,
Rolling Stone,
29 Oct. 2025
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Herodotus recruits evidence from passages in the Iliad and the Odyssey to show that Homer himself knew at least fragments of this tale yet opted to tell another, better yarn.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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Hind’s voice — fragments of which spread online and were later verified and analyzed by outlets including The Washington Post, Sky News and Forensic Architecture — became one of the most haunting and emblematic testaments of the war in Gaza.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Oct. 2025
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Plummer was arrested in a neighboring county with more than $4,000 cash and several ounces of marijuana in his possession, according to KSL and Fox 13.—
Sean Neumann,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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The Freewheel is a light (less than 16 ounces) and breathable soft-shell outer layer made from a mix of spandex and recycled nylon to give the jacket unbelievable stretch.—
Graham Averill,
Outside,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Kennings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kennings. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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