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Recent Examples of nugget Here, Simmons reveals his tips for better communication and offers an essential nugget of advice for young entrepreneurs. Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 8 Sep. 2025 And while the city is home to more major parks than anywhere else in the world, its culinary scene goes beyond turkey legs and chicken nuggets. Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2025 Morgan is adored for her relatability and the nuggets of wisdom that are cleverly interwoven into her jokes. Dana Feldman, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 After largely refusing to touch on Greenlaw’s health last week, Payton dropped a nugget when responding to a question about safety Talanoa Hufanga on Monday. Luca Evans, Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nugget
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Noun
  • But now, the future of Lucille’s American Cafe, a Weston comfort-food institution serving up mouthfuls of nostalgia since 1999, is unclear.
    Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Their Cap & Cane Spirits Overproof Rum clocks in at 63% ABV and is created from a mix of Guatemalan molasses, turbinado sugar, and evaporated cane juice that delivers a mouthful of flavor.
    Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • For the second time in the last three season, Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow will miss a large chunk of the season.
    Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • In the worst-case scenario, a collision could smash a satellite into many more pieces of space debris, which each then go on to collide with more satellites, which produces more chunks of space junk, and so on and so forth.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Now for other people whose crepe myrtles look like yours, black bark and white specks are classic signs of crepe myrtle scales.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2025
  • There’s nothing worse than applying a full face of makeup, only for your best mascara to end up in smears or black specks across your face.
    Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Watch this historic matchup on panoramic, state-of-the-art digital screens with premium seating, specialty cocktails, craft beer, and upscale bites like crispy chicken wings, flatbreads, and signature burgers.
    Nasha Smith, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • That took a huge bite out of Fox’s total numbers.
    Peter Baugh, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Smoothing round poppy seeds and sea salt—which do the gentle buffing—come suspended in a hunk of detoxifying French blue clay, nourishing olive fruit oil, and zingy peppermint essential oil, the latter of which wakes you up better than any iPhone alarm.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • When this world was catastrophically interrupted by a hunk of space trash some 30 million years later, in the cinematic end-Cretaceous mass extinction, the mammals would inherit not only the Earth but the climate of the dinosaurs as well.
    Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In the course of his 50-plus-year writing career, there's been a good bit of debate over Stephen King's ability to deliver a satisfying ending.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
  • This evolved into a prototype chiefly engineered by Burrell Smith, selecting for its CPU the 8-bit Motorola 6809 as an upgrade from the Apple II's MOS 6502 but still keeping costs low.
    Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In line with Japanese tastes, many of the rides are much tamer than their equivalents Stateside.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • At this roadside stand, soft-serve cones, towering sundaes, and nostalgia-inducing banana splits taste best eaten under string lights in the warm evening air.
    Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Add butter and pulse until the mix clumps together to form pea-size balls.
    Gretchen McKay, Twin Cities, 12 Sep. 2025
  • If the plaque weakens and breaks apart, large clumps are released into the blood stream, and a large clump can block an artery, completely shutting off blood flow and causing a heart attack.
    Bryant Stamford, Louisville Courier Journal, 11 Sep. 2025

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