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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
The chicken caviar nuggets are $35 with nine grams of caviar and $60 with 18 grams of caviar.
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Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
As such, there is something exceedingly insightful in this small mindset shift – a true nugget of wisdom worth embracing.
—Kwame Christian, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2025
The golden nugget that’ll take you and yours out of the rat race.
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
But fans who opt for the nuggets can get a special hot sauce with a nod to the beloved video game.
—Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025
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Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
As such, there is something exceedingly insightful in this small mindset shift – a true nugget of wisdom worth embracing.
—Kwame Christian, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2025
The golden nugget that’ll take you and yours out of the rat race.
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
But fans who opt for the nuggets can get a special hot sauce with a nod to the beloved video game.
—Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nugget
Noun
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Bright mouthful of red fruit with full on acidity and flavors that include lemon drops, peanut brittle and beef jerky.—
Tom Mullen,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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All the bear got from my neck down was a few mouthfuls of clothes, except for the bite in my shoulder.—
Jim Zumbo,
Outdoor Life,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
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But, for example, the Russian Kosmos 1340, which weighed about 2 and a half tons, probably left behind a few chunks reaching the surface of Earth.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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For a good chunk of the premiere, that’s the chief conflict, and mystery.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
13 Apr. 2025
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Now the Mediterranean-style digs high above Malibu Canyon have popped up for sale, asking a speck under $13 million.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
10 Apr. 2025
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You cant be expected to clean every speck of dust in every nook and cranny.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The fight ends with Shauna taking a bite out of Melissa’s arm, pinning her down and demanding Melissa eat her own flesh.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Mar. 2025
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The site of the leech bite was treated, and the farmer was given iron supplements to take for a month to manage his anemia, doctors said.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The hunk was accompanied by his father, Arnold Schwarzenegger.—
Richard Johnson,
New York Daily News,
16 Mar. 2025
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God bless—keep a big hunk of it.—
Jeffery Vacante,
Hartford Courant,
16 Mar. 2025
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Everybody was a little bit like at the end of summer camp, although a bit too grown up for this to be true.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
7 Apr. 2025
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Yet the other major mystery of the series, surrounding the possible identity of Ruby Sunday’s mother, felt a little bit anticlimactic when she was unveiled, even though the thought process behind that storyline was touching.—
Scott Bryan,
Variety,
7 Apr. 2025
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McCarthy’s point is that Journalism got a taste of it today and came through it well.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Art cycles in and out of fashion, and nothing could have been less suited to twentieth-century taste than Boucher’s chocolate-box cherubs.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2025
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Blood clots may form in the coronary arteries, usually due to atherosclerosis, a disease in which arteries harden due to the gradual accumulation of cholesterol and fatty clumps (plaque).—
Alicen Nelson MD,
Verywell Health,
27 Mar. 2025
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This will greatly benefit your home by taking away the chance of your ice leaking or forming into a solid clump during the defrost cycle.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Nugget.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nugget. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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