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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
ABC News, 27 Feb. 2026
Now, blasting aliens and gobbling power pellets with his sons has become sacred bonding time.
—Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 26 Feb. 2026
Rain may mix with wet snowflakes or a few sleet pellets, especially northwest of Baltimore.
—Cutter Martin, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
The train was carrying plastic pellets that posed no hazard, and there were no fires or injuries.
—Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
These seed-sized pellets of High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU), enriched between 5% and 20%, are coated in layers of carbon and ceramic materials and formed into round pebbles.
—David Szondy
february 21, New Atlas, 21 Feb. 2026
Fear of imprisonment had not deterred him from reactivating his network in January, shortly after a gunman sprayed him with plastic pellets in Tehran.
—Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2026
Weighted blankets come with extra heft in the form of glass beads, pellets, cotton or another filling.
—Adithi Ramakrishnan, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
One of the most effective ways to remove it is by using a de-icing product, like rock salt, calcium chloride pellets or calcium magnesium acetate, according to Curti's Landscaping.
—Maddie McGay, USA Today, 9 Feb. 2026
Noun
The older boy had dozens of pellets in his face, but amazingly none hit his eyes.
—ABC News, 27 Feb. 2026
Now, blasting aliens and gobbling power pellets with his sons has become sacred bonding time.
—Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 26 Feb. 2026
Rain may mix with wet snowflakes or a few sleet pellets, especially northwest of Baltimore.
—Cutter Martin, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
The train was carrying plastic pellets that posed no hazard, and there were no fires or injuries.
—Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
These seed-sized pellets of High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU), enriched between 5% and 20%, are coated in layers of carbon and ceramic materials and formed into round pebbles.
—David Szondy
february 21, New Atlas, 21 Feb. 2026
Fear of imprisonment had not deterred him from reactivating his network in January, shortly after a gunman sprayed him with plastic pellets in Tehran.
—Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2026
Weighted blankets come with extra heft in the form of glass beads, pellets, cotton or another filling.
—Adithi Ramakrishnan, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
One of the most effective ways to remove it is by using a de-icing product, like rock salt, calcium chloride pellets or calcium magnesium acetate, according to Curti's Landscaping.
—Maddie McGay, USA Today, 9 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pellets
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Over the course of just one minute, the gunman sailed down the city’s bustling Sixth Street and then exited his car, firing off even more bullets, ultimately killing three people and injuring 13 others before he was fatally shot by police.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN Money,
3 Mar. 2026
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Officials displayed rows upon rows of rifles and guns, coolers full of bullets, walkie-talkies and camo uniforms.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
3 Mar. 2026
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The future of earthquake-proofing might just be a simple cylinder filled with steel balls.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Mar. 2026
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In typical 30 Rock fashion, the bit reaches the height of absurdity when someone informs Arthur that some of the tennis balls are meant to be actual tennis balls in the scene.—
Eliana Dockterman,
Time,
5 Mar. 2026
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Like generations of potential treatments before it, KRSA-028 is designed to break down a protein called amyloid that clumps up in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.—
Allison DeAngelis,
STAT,
18 Feb. 2026
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However, sometimes the abnormal IgA (the antibody that clumps up and causes problems) does run in families.—
Brandi Jones,
Health,
15 Jan. 2026
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Advertisement Breaking it down Artificial intelligence is an umbrella-term for several different technologies, from autonomous vehicles to chatbots—and the database lumps these together without a comprehensive structure.—
Harry Booth,
Time,
19 Jan. 2026
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“Pellets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pellets. Accessed 7 Mar. 2026.
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