1
: a solid lump
especially
: a native lump of precious metal
2
: tidbit sense 2
nuggets of wisdom
3
: a small usually rounded piece of food
chicken nuggets
Examples of nugget in a Sentence
nuggets of beef in the chow mein
a seemingly inconsequential nugget of information that proved to be the key to cracking the case
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Caviar chicken nuggets dominated this year, specifically from trendy restaurants like New York City hot spot Coqodaq.
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Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025
With different narrators lending their voices across various editions, How It's Made offers digestible nuggets of knowledge that would please the shortest of attention spans.
—Ilana Gordon, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Dec. 2025
Here are a bunch of Monday Dolphins nuggets and a draft update.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 29 Dec. 2025
By week’s end, only the hardiest remained standing for the opening night of the new Caviar Kaspia pop-up at the Snow Lodge, where chicken nuggets and baked potatoes topped with caviar were served alongside more champagne.
—Rachel Marlowe, Vanity Fair, 22 Dec. 2025
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Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025
With different narrators lending their voices across various editions, How It's Made offers digestible nuggets of knowledge that would please the shortest of attention spans.
—Ilana Gordon, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Dec. 2025
Here are a bunch of Monday Dolphins nuggets and a draft update.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 29 Dec. 2025
By week’s end, only the hardiest remained standing for the opening night of the new Caviar Kaspia pop-up at the Snow Lodge, where chicken nuggets and baked potatoes topped with caviar were served alongside more champagne.
—Rachel Marlowe, Vanity Fair, 22 Dec. 2025
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“Nugget.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nugget. Accessed 31 Dec. 2025.
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nugget
noun
nug·get
ˈnəg-ət 
: a solid lump especially of precious metal
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