as in whisper
something small in size, amount, or range
a nutshell of a fan base
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Recent Examples of nutshell
This is the Giants in a nutshell.
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Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
21 June 2026
Left-wing sports media in a nutshell.
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Ian Miller Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
14 June 2026
The idea, in a nutshell, is to first find the group using a mixture of satellites, drones, radar aircraft, ships, submarines, signals intelligence, etc.
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Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
13 June 2026
In a nutshell, a player is offside if any part of their body is closer to the goal than both the ball and the second-to-last defender, when the ball is passed to them.
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Jonathan Thompson,
Travel + Leisure,
10 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for nutshell
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
21 June 2026
Left-wing sports media in a nutshell.
—
Ian Miller Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
14 June 2026
The idea, in a nutshell, is to first find the group using a mixture of satellites, drones, radar aircraft, ships, submarines, signals intelligence, etc.
—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
13 June 2026
In a nutshell, a player is offside if any part of their body is closer to the goal than both the ball and the second-to-last defender, when the ball is passed to them.
—
Jonathan Thompson,
Travel + Leisure,
10 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nutshell
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Test your knowledge of cruise controversies, wedding whispers and more in this week's American Culture Quiz.
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Sleep in peace with this tower fan, which is whisper-quiet at 25 decibels.
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The goal is to redirect human advisors toward the parts of a deal that require judgment and trust.
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Asked Monday what the best part about being back has been so far, a big smile crept across Watkins’ face.
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Roughly 100 children have been treated elsewhere in the hospital since last week, a fraction of those injured in the earthquakes.
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The $8 million in fees represents only a fraction of the legal costs incurred by Lively during the course of 18 months of litigation against Baldoni.
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But cases are on the rise as more people report symptoms such as hives, diarrhea and itchiness after eating as little as a mouthful of meat and — in some cases — dairy.
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But cases are on the rise as more people report symptoms such as hives, diarrhea and itchiness after eating as little as a mouthful of meat and — in some cases — dairy.
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The second film was a bit too bloated for my tastes and one that didn’t add much to what came before.
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These insights from local chefs offer visitors an authentic taste of each host city's unique culinary identity.
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Instead, at the scene, detectives looked at snippets of surveillance videos stored on Burke’s phone.
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The fair booths, all inside structures that resembled the neoclassical architecture of the nearby National Gallery of Art, offered snippets of Americana to visitors.
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That was the lone bit of positive news for the Royals (34-49) on Friday.
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Each member of the band had their moment to shine while the crowd danced on the soggy earth, not minding the conditions one bit.
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Seventy of the dogs were X-rayed on site, and many showed evidence of bullet fragments.
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Multiple fractures with missing fragments, fetlock open and disarticulated, severe soft-tissue damage.
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