kennings

Definition of kenningsnext
plural of kenning, chiefly Scottish

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Noun
  • Fortunately, however, the absolute energy of any individual particle-particle collision is tiny, corresponding to tiny fractions of a microgram’s worth of energy in terms of mass.
    Big Think, Big Think, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Addiction may be one of their next frontiers, an area where only small fractions of patients currently receive medications as treatment.
    Meg Tirrell, CNN Money, 4 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The pressure in their interior is so great that atoms are crushed and split apart into their constituent particles.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The atoms absorb the incoming light and re-emit it at much shorter wavelengths, producing vacuum ultraviolet radiation.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Archaeobotanists find various parts of plants, including seeds, chaff, fruit pits, nutshells and cobs.
    Alexandria Mitchem Hansen, The Conversation, 19 Dec. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • This means that even if a fault-tolerant quantum computer becomes available, QPE could still struggle with large molecules because the chance of successfully extracting the correct energy becomes vanishingly small.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 14 Mar. 2026
  • In rodent experiments, both molecules promote dendritic growth in the prefrontal cortex.
    Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • These are a few of the plentiful subjects broached by the movie, which goes on to encompass snippets of various activist groups, civil liberties attorneys, and local politicians, but all these topics are crammed into a scant 84-minute runtime, and few are given the requisite attention.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 14 Mar. 2026
  • In Sirāt, snippets of radio broadcasts about an unspecified war play in the background, casting a bleak shadow over Luis’s search for his daughter.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • This chilling, starkly beautiful ambient piece draws Nebraska’s marginal whispers to the forefront and smears them across the picture plane.
    Sasha Geffen, Pitchfork, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Jessica Alba's beau just quietly debunked whispers that the actress is secretly dating an NFL star.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • And there was something investigators had never seen before -- potato fragments splattered in the bedroom.
    Marcelena Spencer, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • These fragments often convey shifting or conflicting justifications.
    Letters to the Editor, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The new Ozzy — named after her paternal grandfather, the former Black Sabbath frontman who died of a heart attack last July — clocked in a week ago at 7 pounds, 12 ounces, and 19 inches long, according to the photo.
    Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Osbourne’s social media post featured a black-and-white video of their newborn, sleeping on floral sheets alongside a card revealing she was born on March 5, weighing 7 pounds and 4 ounces.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 12 Mar. 2026
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“Kennings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kennings. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.

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