nutshells

plural of nutshell

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Recent Examples of nutshells 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nutshells
Noun
  • In this way, the technological sublime can be a diffuse feeling, encountered in fragments.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
  • For a moment, the community that once existed only in fragments was whole again.
    Alessia Glaviano, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Yet the chairman Ron Noades and Coppell heard whispers of transfer interest.
    Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • External whispers were ignored, leaving Scheyer thrilled in landing the late-bloomer from Milwaukee’s Wisconsin Lutheran High School.
    Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The largest of the Apostle Islands is Madeline Island, about a mile offshore, and the historic capital of the Ojibwe Nation, which encompasses parts of what are now Canada and the northern Great Lakes region of the United States.
    Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Chainsaw Man follows Denji, a poor teen who makes a contract that fuses his body with that of Pochita, the dog-like Chainsaw Devil, granting him the power to transform parts of his body into chainsaws.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Time in the age of screens was rapidly changing, brazenly commercializing, exploding into bits and then getting distributed across multiple venues and devices.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025
  • All the best bits, all the comedy and magic, but in a totally original space and setting.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There are so many life lessons packed into baking a simple birthday cake or a blueberry muffin, and not just how to do fractions.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Even if a harvester can outgas regolith reliably, separating minute traces of helium-3 from helium-4 and other gases at low mass fractions requires sophisticated cryogenic or membrane systems.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2025
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
Noun
  • Cowboy chili is wonderfully rich and beefy, with satisfying bites of tender chuck roast—which seem meatier than ground beef crumbles.
    Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Deaths from snake bites in Australia are rare.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This old-fashioned dessert brings together the tastes of all of your favorite pies–coconut, chess, pecan–all in one bite.
    Josh Miller, Southern Living, 24 Oct. 2025
  • For example, the city is currently seeing a notable spike in independent bookstores catering to idiosyncratic tastes—but this is not a new phenomenon.
    Hilton Als, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Nutshells.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nutshells. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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