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as in mouthful
a small piece or quantity of food
nuggets of beef in the chow mein fried chicken nuggets
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as in speck
a very small piece
a seemingly inconsequential nugget of information that proved to be the key to cracking the case
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Recent Examples of nugget
Browse souvenir shops selling Indigenous wood carvings, caribou fur, and gold nugget jewelry; check out the lively Great Alaskan Lumberjack Show; or learn about Indigenous art and traditions at the Totem Heritage Center.
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Sharael Kolberg, Travel + Leisure, 27 May 2025
Liv Morgan Liv Morgan returned in a backstage segment where Dominik Mysterio was getting ready to eat Roxane Perez’s chicken nuggets.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Expect the unexpected: Celebrities, McDonald's chicken nuggets, and grandmothers
The buzz around their parties on social media piqued the interest of M'tyma McNeal, 34, who went to a 9 AM Banger to celebrate her friend's birthday in April.
—Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 24 May 2025
The bombshell revelation was a small nugget in The New York Times’ profile of Hudson, who has risen from champion cheerleading coach to being in a relationship with one of the most famous men in football of this generation.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 20 May 2025
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Sharael Kolberg, Travel + Leisure, 27 May 2025
Liv Morgan Liv Morgan returned in a backstage segment where Dominik Mysterio was getting ready to eat Roxane Perez’s chicken nuggets.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Expect the unexpected: Celebrities, McDonald's chicken nuggets, and grandmothers
The buzz around their parties on social media piqued the interest of M'tyma McNeal, 34, who went to a 9 AM Banger to celebrate her friend's birthday in April.
—Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 24 May 2025
The bombshell revelation was a small nugget in The New York Times’ profile of Hudson, who has risen from champion cheerleading coach to being in a relationship with one of the most famous men in football of this generation.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nugget
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The photo shows a happy Thomas with his Philly in his lap, and a mouthful of Angelo's.—
Savannah Leigh Richardson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 May 2025
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Miss Manners has seen people who want to talk through a mouthful of food cover their mouths like this, but not those trying to modulate their voices. Is lowering your volume just too obvious?—
Judith Martin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
17 May 2025
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The agreement takes a big chunk of oversight away from the NCAA and puts it in the hands of the four biggest conferences.—
Eddie Pells,
Baltimore Sun,
7 June 2025
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Reyes spent a chunk of his loan funds on high-end watches: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak, Rolex Oystersteel and Everosegold.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
6 June 2025
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The whole process is more NASA than NASCAR in that there’s not a speck of grease or oil on the bright, white vinyl flooring and everybody’s hands are clean.—
Kevin Baxter,
Los Angeles Times,
25 May 2025
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Or a percentage of a fraction of a risk — better lock him up, than risk a speck of backlash.—
David Katz,
IndieWire,
15 May 2025
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The young girl took a bite of the guacamole and flashed a thumbs up.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
26 May 2025
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While there is a timeline for all the moving parts of the day from guest arrivals to late-night bites at the after-party, planners need to be ready for anything.—
Shelby Wax,
Vogue,
25 May 2025
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As Dorman, Arca’s chief investment officer, sees it, people buy things for three reasons: (1) future profits, like a cash-flowing business (2) utility, like a hunk of steel and (3) coolness, like a baseball card.—
Dan Alexander,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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This hunk of confetti cake from Butter+Blooms in Rogers was not too sweet, not too big and not expensive ($5).—
Worth Sparkman,
Axios,
19 May 2025
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The actors at times seem to be speed-reading their lines, rushing through the notoriously long play to get to the good bits.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
6 June 2025
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During a typically silent week of the NFL offseason, football fans and bettors got a a rare bit of early-June fodder with the report this week that Aaron Rodgers will be signing a one-year deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 June 2025
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From partying in a Nova Scotian kitchen to tasting Inuit cuisine while cruising the Northwest Passage, here are six ways to get a true taste of Canada.—
Renée Morrison,
AFAR Media,
5 June 2025
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The variant has similar symptoms to other strains, including fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, sore throat, congestion or a runny nose, new loss of taste or smell, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, nausea or vomiting.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
5 June 2025
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The results show whether the brain of a person with cognitive symptoms also has amyloid plaques, clumps of toxic proteins that build up in the spaces between brain cells.—
Jon Hamilton,
NPR,
21 May 2025
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Among my carpet of Peruvian lilies stands a clump of the Third Harmonic variety.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
17 May 2025
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“Nugget.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nugget. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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