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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
An anonymous donor placed the nugget into a Salvation Army kettle during the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle Campaign in December 2024.
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Apr. 2025
Scientists may have found a new way to make chicken nuggets—without need any animals.
—Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
Performers have dodged chicken nuggets, more over the years
Banks isn't the first, and surely won't be the last, artist to have something chucked at them onstage by concert attendees.
Need a break?
—Greta Cross, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2025
The unique snack features organic chicken nuggets with a French cream and is topped with a pickle and a crown of caviar.
—Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Apr. 2025
Scientists may have found a new way to make chicken nuggets—without need any animals.
—Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
Performers have dodged chicken nuggets, more over the years
Banks isn't the first, and surely won't be the last, artist to have something chucked at them onstage by concert attendees.
Need a break?
—Greta Cross, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2025
The unique snack features organic chicken nuggets with a French cream and is topped with a pickle and a crown of caviar.
—Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nugget
Noun
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Bright mouthful of red fruit with full on acidity and flavors that include lemon drops, peanut brittle and beef jerky.—
Tom Mullen,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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All the bear got from my neck down was a few mouthfuls of clothes, except for the bite in my shoulder.—
Jim Zumbo,
Outdoor Life,
12 Mar. 2025
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Mitchell spent a chunk of the game defending Hawks star guard Trae Young, limiting him to just two field-goal attempts while guarding him for six minutes of game clock, according to NBA tracking stats.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
20 Apr. 2025
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In 1978, Wenner sold the magazine to Larry Burke, a young man from Chicago who had spent a chunk of his twenties vagabonding around Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2025
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With five stores and a small online presence, Whim is just a speck in the vast retail universe.—
Ken Belson,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2025
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Having very high levels of fluoride can result in some erosion of tooth enamel, which can predispose people to tooth staining and can cause little white specks on the teeth, says Oller.—
Sherri Gordon, CLC,
Parents,
11 Apr. 2025
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The National Electronic Injury Surveillance System relied on contractors reviewing thousands of ER records and categorizing them by cause, including motor vehicle accidents, adverse drug events, firearms, drownings, poisoning, dog bites.—
Will Stone,
NPR,
21 Apr. 2025
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In Jackson, the battle’s over, and those who suffered bites accept their fate.—
Sara Netzley,
EW.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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But she's got her choice of handsome high school hunks, including Reid (Andrew Liner), Davis' son and the school's quarterback, and Lucas (Garrett Wareing), the poor kid from the wrong side of the tracks.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2025
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Their weirdly cozy 750-square-foot studio layout, a tiny dot in a 3.5 million-square-foot hunk of capitalism, was to these bohemian commandos a rebuke to the city’s destruction of their old neighborhood close to the mall.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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With about 100 vendors, there is a little bit of everything here, from jewelry to pickles and hot sauce to collectible items like coins and comic books.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
19 Apr. 2025
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Perugini: Tell me a little bit about your whiskey journey.—
Chris Perugini,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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The $210 gourmet meal at the Avondale eatery will cater to a growing interest in weed and a declining taste for booze, chef Devon Quinn said.—
Robert McCoppin,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Apr. 2025
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The vampire audience, which at this point includes a couple characters who canonically have good taste, absolutely eats it up.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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About 70 feet down, the rover would see purple clumps along the lakebed formed by cyanobacteria, a microorganism that thrives in habitats like sinkholes that are high in sulfate and low in oxygen.—
Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi,
Discover Magazine,
18 Apr. 2025
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Plants grow from a thick rhizome and spread to form dense clumps that benefit from late summer division every few years.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
13 Apr. 2025
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“Nugget.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nugget. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.
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