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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
Chicken nuggets sold in eight states are being recalled after bone fragments were discovered in some of the meat.
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Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2025
The air fryer takes the humble food of the plains and Rust Belt—wings, fries, onion rings, nuggets, yesterday's pizza—and crisps it up for you at home.
—Matthew Korfhage, WIRED, 6 Feb. 2025
Chicken tenders and/or nuggets (22 percent), nachos (21 percent) and pizza (20 percent) also made the top 10 ranking of foods that would make the ideal plate.
—Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
The interview will be pre-taped at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla.
Ready for some more recent newsy nuggets?
—Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 3 Feb. 2025
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Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2025
The air fryer takes the humble food of the plains and Rust Belt—wings, fries, onion rings, nuggets, yesterday's pizza—and crisps it up for you at home.
—Matthew Korfhage, WIRED, 6 Feb. 2025
Chicken tenders and/or nuggets (22 percent), nachos (21 percent) and pizza (20 percent) also made the top 10 ranking of foods that would make the ideal plate.
—Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
The interview will be pre-taped at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla.
Ready for some more recent newsy nuggets?
—Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 3 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nugget
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If a single picture is worth a thousand words, this data visualization tool will save you a mouthful during your next presentation.—
StackCommerce Team (Sponsored),
PCMAG,
2 Feb. 2025
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And this particular mouthful may have been really foul.—
James Doubek,
NPR,
29 Jan. 2025
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Japan — where auto exports make up the largest chunk of outbound shipments and the US is the largest market — has already raised the issue with the White House.—
Bloomberg,
The Mercury News,
19 Feb. 2025
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Before the never-bored world of smartphones, that made up a big chunk of my time in N.Y.C. — Frank Vigorito Torres WINTER’S TALE, by Mark Helprin.—
Juliana Barbassa,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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Coincidentally, also visible in the new images is the planet Mercury, appearing as a tiny speck of light gliding closer to the sun.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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Such heady heights look like a speck on the horizon right now, and the question is how small that prospect needs to shrink for anger in the stands to rise again.—
Laurie Whitwell,
The Athletic,
16 Feb. 2025
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One bite and your neighbors may never try a frozen version again.—
Mary Shannon Wells,
Southern Living,
20 Feb. 2025
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The result is a bite so flavor-dense that just a few ounces can amp up an entire dish.—
Jolene Thym,
The Mercury News,
19 Feb. 2025
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His Girl Hollywood’s hero takes major inspiration from classic movie hunk Gene Kelly, particularly this film and its zany organized crime antics.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
People.com,
10 Feb. 2025
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This is the stuff, Kravitz suggests, that modern-day dreams are made of: the dead-eyed hunk, the state of permanent vacation, the numbing cycles of consumption and overindulgence.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
6 Dec. 2024
Noun
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And that gives him and his agent Ben Hankinson a fair bit of leverage in contract talks.—
Harman Dayal,
The Athletic,
18 Feb. 2025
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Rather than spending years of R&D perpetually reinventing themselves, its creators take what’s worked in their own games, incorporate the best bits of others, and remix the brew over and over.—
Isaiah Colbert,
Rolling Stone,
18 Feb. 2025
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This may have been the best one yet, giving Davis a taste of his own medicine.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
17 Feb. 2025
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Regardless of your particular tastes in Cochran covers, MacMahon hopes a deeper message comes through the film about dedication and perseverance.—
Steve Appleford,
SPIN,
17 Feb. 2025
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Sifting a dry ingredient before measuring it not only helps break up and clumps, but helps the measurement to be more accurate and leads to a lighter, airier end product.—
Cameron Beall,
Southern Living,
16 Feb. 2025
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They are often found in drainage canals or thick grass clumps, according to the museum.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
10 Feb. 2025
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“Nugget.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nugget. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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