as in bullets
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
Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2025
In an industrial kiln, these pellets reach temperatures of around 900 degrees Celsius, which breaks them down and releases pure CO2 gas.
—Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
Deer feces is usually small, fibrous pellets, but those pellets may form clumps.
—Steven Sullivan, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
Protesters were met with gas canisters and pepper pellets, Fox 32 reported.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
The easiest thing to do is to run cleaning pellets through the grinder.
—Noah Kaufman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
Rotem Naftalovich, Daniel Naftalovich and Frank Greenway proposed ingesting small, nondigestible PTFE (Teflon) pellets to bulk up meal volume and increase satiety without calories, testing the idea in lab models and even patenting the approach two years later.
—New Atlas, 19 Sep. 2025
Like just about every brand, these run on conventional gas cylinders, even though Traeger is most famous for wood pellets.
—Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
That’s to help assure the researchers that any drop in the rat population in the area with pellets is due to contraception, rather than broader factors such as weather or sanitation.
—Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
It’s constructed with stainless steel, fueled by either pellets or wood, and designed with a dual 360-degree updraft technology that reduces smoke output.
—Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2025
In an industrial kiln, these pellets reach temperatures of around 900 degrees Celsius, which breaks them down and releases pure CO2 gas.
—Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
Deer feces is usually small, fibrous pellets, but those pellets may form clumps.
—Steven Sullivan, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
Protesters were met with gas canisters and pepper pellets, Fox 32 reported.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
The easiest thing to do is to run cleaning pellets through the grinder.
—Noah Kaufman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
Rotem Naftalovich, Daniel Naftalovich and Frank Greenway proposed ingesting small, nondigestible PTFE (Teflon) pellets to bulk up meal volume and increase satiety without calories, testing the idea in lab models and even patenting the approach two years later.
—New Atlas, 19 Sep. 2025
Like just about every brand, these run on conventional gas cylinders, even though Traeger is most famous for wood pellets.
—Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
That’s to help assure the researchers that any drop in the rat population in the area with pellets is due to contraception, rather than broader factors such as weather or sanitation.
—Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pellets
Noun
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Contour sticks are back, featuring slim features and creamier bullets for precision.—
Essence,
Essence,
6 Oct. 2025
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Jasper grabbed his mother and the two weaved between cars, trying to avoid the bullets.—
Georgea Kovanis,
Freep.com,
5 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Palace’s two main routes to creating chances — from wide combinations involving their wingers and through balls from their midfielders — produce plenty of first-time shooting opportunities for their forwards.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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Last Friday, agents in Chicago reportedly fired tear gas and pepper balls toward a crowd of over 100 protesters outside an ICE facility in Broadview, west of Chicago, after some attempted to block a car near the site.—
Hanna Park,
CNN Money,
2 Oct. 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 9 Oct. 2025.
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