as in whisper
something small in size, amount, or range
a nutshell of a fan base
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Recent Examples of nutshell
The plot in a nutshell: Dockery plays Madolyn, an air marshal transporting Mob trial witness Winston (Grace) from a small Alaskan town to Anchorage.
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Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2025
In a nutshell, NUTmobile drivers plan and execute more than 200 annual events across the country, promoting the Planters brand through the 26-foot-long peanut on wheels.
—Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2025
And in a nutshell, that’s why news of the Bears hiring Johnson on Monday registered as so intriguing and so compelling.
—Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
The controlling idea, then, is the main plotline in a nutshell, which isn’t any bigger than a run-on sentence and may be much smaller.
—Tim Maurer, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
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Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2025
In a nutshell, NUTmobile drivers plan and execute more than 200 annual events across the country, promoting the Planters brand through the 26-foot-long peanut on wheels.
—Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2025
And in a nutshell, that’s why news of the Bears hiring Johnson on Monday registered as so intriguing and so compelling.
—Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
The controlling idea, then, is the main plotline in a nutshell, which isn’t any bigger than a run-on sentence and may be much smaller.
—Tim Maurer, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for nutshell
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nutshell
Noun
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The whispers rise, a hum, a din— China’s AI, set to win.—
Emily Forlini,
PCMAG,
28 Jan. 2025
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More powerful and vivid than captured on record, her singing moved from faint, vulnerable whispers to urgent, shrill-free belting that often carried without the aid of effects.—
Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Jan. 2025
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The north-of-the-border ally is responsible for only a tiny fraction of the undocumented immigration and illicit drugs that flow into the U.S, according to data from the Drug Enforcement Administration.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
3 Feb. 2025
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In the days of the draft, a typical recruit’s salary amounted to a tiny fraction of what an equivalent private-sector worker would earn.—
Dexter Filkins,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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In one memorable scene, Nafisi has the students practice a Jane Austen–era dance as part of their study of Pride and Prejudice, drawing parallels between the stifling rules of courtship in Victorian England and those of some contemporary families in Iran.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2025
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Rosario was busted in August 2022 along with eight other men as part of a federal takedown of Genovese and Bonanno gambling operations.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
26 Jan. 2025
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This mouthful of a condition is a chronic type of arthritis that causes spine inflamation.—
Brittany Risher,
SELF,
8 Jan. 2025
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Advertisement Director of the Office of Management and Budget: Russell Vought Behind that bureaucratic mouthful of a title is the most powerful person deciding how the government will spend its $7 trillion-plus annual budget.—
Peter Green,
Quartz,
30 Dec. 2024
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Conley is a rhetorician who researches how cultural influences shape our everyday habits, preferences, biases and desires, particularly in the area of food and taste.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
4 Feb. 2025
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But in the decade before, the company had begun to grapple with changes in audiences’ tastes and habits.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
4 Feb. 2025
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On New Year's Eve 2024, the show posted a clip on its Instagram, featuring snippets of their early career days.—
Jackie Tempera,
People.com,
26 Jan. 2025
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More context is given to their stories as the films show them with their families and coaches, offering a few snippets of joyful teenage lives with friends, siblings and romantic crushes.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
24 Jan. 2025
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Then take a teeny bit of neutral cooking oil (like canola or vegetable), smear on a paper towel, and give it a light coating.—
Wilder Davies,
Bon Appétit,
6 Feb. 2025
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There was bit of fear around killing Billy, who had quickly become a big part of the show.—
Emily Longeretta,
Variety,
6 Feb. 2025
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The Tacoma’s exterior plastic was melted and its front bumper reduced to fragments, but the truck’s engine bay remained largely unscathed.—
David Caraccio,
Sacramento Bee,
29 Jan. 2025
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After a seven-year voyage, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped a capsule of about 120 grams of precious asteroid fragments into the Utah desert in September 2023.—
Ella Jeffries,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 Jan. 2025
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