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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
Rockhounds can check out the largest gold nugget discovered during the Gold Rush (13.8 pounds) at the California State Mining & Mineral Museum.
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AFAR Media, 11 July 2025
The mousse itself was made chocolate from Chiapas and hid a nugget of more chiles underneath.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2025
Let potato nuggets stand on baking pan for 10 minutes.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 July 2025
The tiny restaurant serves big, inexpensive breakfast burritos and coffee (including a protein coffee option) until noon, plus chips and dips, burgers, fries and adult-ish chicken nuggets with jalapeno ranch.
—Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
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AFAR Media, 11 July 2025
The mousse itself was made chocolate from Chiapas and hid a nugget of more chiles underneath.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2025
Let potato nuggets stand on baking pan for 10 minutes.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 July 2025
The tiny restaurant serves big, inexpensive breakfast burritos and coffee (including a protein coffee option) until noon, plus chips and dips, burgers, fries and adult-ish chicken nuggets with jalapeno ranch.
—Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nugget
Noun
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The Dodgers still cracked to life against Logan Webb, who last month fed this lineup with a mouthful of cutters to great success.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
12 July 2025
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He’s quickly engrossed and, every so often, reaches out for a mouthful of corn dog.—
Christopher O'Donnell,
The Orlando Sentinel,
20 June 2025
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No unwieldy chocolate chunks, overwhelming ripples, or unpleasantly gritty, grainy bits of chocolate.—
Sam Stone,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
23 July 2025
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Until that changes, a large chunk will continue to seek their soccer elsewhere.—
Ian Nicholas Quillen,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
Noun
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Serve them with slices of prosciutto or speck, sure.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
6 July 2025
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Dishes such as beef stew with speck dumplings or Wienerschnitzel in butter breaded veal cutlet, with roasted potatoes and cranberry jam, are big favorites.—
Paul Caputo,
Forbes.com,
4 July 2025
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Grace Mills, 18 of Valparaiso, battled Lyme disease and knows all too well the effects of a tick bite.—
Deena Butterfield,
Chicago Tribune,
24 July 2025
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The secret to this fantastic recipe is pockets of bursting, gooey cheese in every bite.—
Hallie Milstein,
Southern Living,
24 July 2025
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Just as theatrical—and perhaps even more thrilling—is the restaurant’s turmeric-marinated catfish, the fish cut into hunks and twice-cooked: first, with a crisping swim in the kitchen’s deep fryer, offstage in the kitchen, then at the table, in a sizzling skillet set over a portable burner.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
20 July 2025
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The chicken was outrageously juicy, shredded into succulent hunks that sopped up a brick-red-colored mole made from roasted tomatoes, chiles and onions with ground sesame and pumpkin seeds.—
Rachel Bernhard,
jsonline.com,
15 July 2025
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The Martin County Sheriff’s Office says while the couple was waist deep in the water with their dog, an alligator bit the hand and wrist of the woman and dragged her under the water.—
Gershon Harrell,
Sun Sentinel,
24 July 2025
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While a headboard may seem like a small design detail in your overall bedroom layout, a little bit of creativity can make a big impact.—
Rebecca Shinners,
Architectural Digest,
24 July 2025
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Selenium: Excess selenium may cause symptoms like a metallic taste, hair loss, brittle nails, nausea, and nerve damage.—
Patricia Weiser,
Verywell Health,
23 July 2025
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As a founding editor of the leading left-wing arts journal during the Popular Front, the New Masses, Gold became the cultural arbiter of literary taste for the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), pugnaciously denouncing both high modernism and middlebrow literature alike.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 July 2025
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When prepared per the suggestion of its packaging, the combo of about 30 grams of cookies ’n’ cream powder mixed with 6 ounces of water yields a thick beige liquid that’s punctuated by little black clumps of cookie dust.—
Pete Cottell,
Wired News,
17 July 2025
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Therefore, a system could identify clumps of debris big enough to contain remains.—
Robin R. Murphy,
The Conversation,
16 July 2025
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“Nugget.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nugget. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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