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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kennings
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An agentic workflow that completes successfully might make six redundant API calls to get there, each costing fractions of a cent that compound to thousands of dollars at scale.—
Satyabrat Chowdhury,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026 -
Moreover, these particles had lifespans lasting only fractions of a second and a price tag in the hundreds of millions of dollars.—
Kai James,
The Conversation,
26 May 2026
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These close-range interactions cause the particles to act collectively rather than as independent units, generating physical properties that cannot be extrapolated by looking at single, isolated atoms.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
7 June 2026
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Auroras occur when the solar material interacts with the atoms and molecules in Earth's atmosphere.—
Matthew Glasser,
ABC News,
4 June 2026
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Archaeobotanists find various parts of plants, including seeds, chaff, fruit pits, nutshells and cobs.—
Alexandria Mitchem Hansen,
The Conversation,
19 Dec. 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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Living systems invest energy into making molecules that serve specific functions, even when those molecules are complex and harder to form.—
Gideon Yoffe,
The Conversation,
29 May 2026
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Sodium bicarbonate neutralizes odor molecules.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
29 May 2026
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Geary’s interview snippets are among the doc’s most emotionally resonant moments, along with those of the victim’s sister, Pamela Verrill Walker.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
6 June 2026
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Listen to the interview and snippets of the songs or read the article here.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
4 June 2026
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Unsurprisingly, whispers and accusations of nepotism surround Max’s appointment, with Leon Rice having led the program as head coach since 2010, and the father-son connection is undeniably part of why Max returned to Boise State.—
Shaun Goodwin
June 8,
Idaho Statesman,
8 June 2026
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The whispers about Elba being a potential Bond began all the way back in 2008, when Daniel Craig said that Barack Obama’s recent election could herald a Black Bond.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
8 June 2026
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Sarhan and his colleagues cultured live yeast from the samples, but their shotgun metagenomics results also revealed a bunch of short fragments of DNA, most bearing the kind of damage that happens when DNA molecules break down over time.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
6 June 2026
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Courtesy of Rizzotti Advisors The Egadi Islands, off the western coast of Sicily, feel almost untouched, as if the Mediterranean broke off a few fragments and left them in place.—
Spencer Elliott,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2026
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The world-record Wels, or European catfish, weighed 297 pounds and 9 ounces and was caught from Italy’s River Po in March 2010.—
Ken Perrotte,
Outdoor Life,
4 June 2026
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The sandals are only three ounces and totally worth the small bit of space in your suitcase.—
Olivia Young,
Travel + Leisure,
3 June 2026
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“Kennings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kennings. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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