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chews
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Though Brind’Amour vigorously chews his gum behind the players on the Hurricanes bench, Daniels is often stoic, blending into a background of red and white.—
Cory Lavalette,
New York Times,
7 May 2026 -
One enzyme acts as a random chopper, snipping the long polymer chains into smaller pieces, while the other slowly chews these pieces into their monomer building units from each end.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
3 May 2026
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“Nibbles (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nibbles%20%28on%29. Accessed 27 May. 2026.
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