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a usually round or cone-shaped little piece of lead made to be fired from a firearm
the tightly packed pellets of a shotgun cartridge
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Recent Examples of pellets
Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025
When an autopsy found lead pellets in his face, the sheriff said these might be dental fillings.
—Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
The $8 million iron ore carrier repeatedly broke hauling records, and in 1972 set a single-haul record carrying more than 30,000 tons of iron pellets.
—Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 4 Nov. 2025
The No-Burn rule bans burning wood, pellets, and manufactured fire logs in any indoor or outdoor wood-burning device.
—Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2025
But the roughly 9% of LIHEAP recipients who rely on deliverable fuels such as heating oil, kerosene, propane and wood pellets, typically do not have such protections.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2025
Some rat poison pellets and sticky pads were being used to treat the problem.
—Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Oct. 2025
Pressure is also ramping up in Japan and the US, home to the biggest producer of wood pellets, Enviva.
—Nithin Coca, semafor.com, 28 Oct. 2025
At the same time, ICE and other DHS agents have been documented having fired pellets at a protesting pastor in Chicago, throwing a migrant woman to the floor of a New York City immigration court and having maced a woman in Portland, Oregon.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
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Even better, the pellets can be processed using standard injection-moulding machines — the same ones manufacturers already use for polystyrene test housings.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025
When an autopsy found lead pellets in his face, the sheriff said these might be dental fillings.
—Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
The $8 million iron ore carrier repeatedly broke hauling records, and in 1972 set a single-haul record carrying more than 30,000 tons of iron pellets.
—Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 4 Nov. 2025
The No-Burn rule bans burning wood, pellets, and manufactured fire logs in any indoor or outdoor wood-burning device.
—Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2025
But the roughly 9% of LIHEAP recipients who rely on deliverable fuels such as heating oil, kerosene, propane and wood pellets, typically do not have such protections.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2025
Some rat poison pellets and sticky pads were being used to treat the problem.
—Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Oct. 2025
Pressure is also ramping up in Japan and the US, home to the biggest producer of wood pellets, Enviva.
—Nithin Coca, semafor.com, 28 Oct. 2025
At the same time, ICE and other DHS agents have been documented having fired pellets at a protesting pastor in Chicago, throwing a migrant woman to the floor of a New York City immigration court and having maced a woman in Portland, Oregon.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pellets
Noun
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According to the Los Angeles Times, Kim testified that her mother intended to commit suicide after shooting her ex-husband and his new wife, but that her pistol ran out of bullets.—
Jordana Comiter,
PEOPLE,
9 Nov. 2025
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The final man, in a last-second protective reflex, bows his head and crosses his hands over it, but bullets send him flying backward, and the other militiamen join in, firing repeatedly at the dead bodies.—
Nicolas Niarchos,
New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Think timeless toys like sand, rubber balls, jump rope, and cardboard boxes.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
6 Nov. 2025
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His was a random assortment, the stuff of Walmart value packs, including the clip-on bobber balls that amateurs use.—
Jamie Thompson,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
Verb
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The alum then clumps the smaller, suspended fats together for easy removal.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Pellets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pellets. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.
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