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  • verb Present participle of nutcrack.

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Examples

  • The muscles in his jaw reminded me of Russian dolls—not the nesting variety, the nutcracking kind.

    Level Shilo Morlang 2012

  • The pattern differed only in the type of australopithecine—at Olduvai and Turkana, these creatures were robust, with the huge, nutcracking jaws of Zinj A. boisei, while at the Afar, they were represented by the tiny, gracile Lucy.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • The pattern differed only in the type of australopithecine—at Olduvai and Turkana, these creatures were robust, with the huge, nutcracking jaws of Zinj A. boisei, while at the Afar, they were represented by the tiny, gracile Lucy.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • The period between the Portuguese fish chowder and the coupe aux marrons was largely silent, therefore, as far as the human voice was concerned, though the nutcracking play kept the table at a low growl.

    Banquets of the Black Widowers Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992- 1984

  • Elisabetta Visalberghi from the National Research Council, Italy, found that capuchin monkeys are able to pick stones with the right properties for nutcracking. use stones to crack otherwise impenetrable nuts upon hard, flat surfaces, turning innocuous forest objects into their own hammers and anvils.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2009

  • Then when it comes down to the nutcracking time, it all seems to vanish and go away, and we're going to chronicle all of these discrepancies, from the promises to the reality, because this health-care plan is all about the destruction of the creation of wealth in America and the socialization of this country, and it won't work -- never has anywhere else -- and we're going to go to the mat here to see to it that they don't succeed.

    Media Matters for America - Limbaugh Wire 2009

  • Then when it comes down to the nutcracking time, it all seems to vanish and go away, and we're going to chronicle all of these discrepancies, from the promises to the reality, because this health-care plan is all about the destruction of the creation of wealth in America and the socialization of this country, and it won't work -- never has anywhere else -- and we're going to go to the mat here to see to it that they don't succeed.

    Media Matters for America - Limbaugh Wire 2009

  • Then when it comes down to the nutcracking time, it all seems to vanish and go away, and we're going to chronicle all of these discrepancies, from the promises to the reality, because this health-care plan is all about the destruction of the creation of wealth in America and the socialization of this country, and it won't work -- never has anywhere else -- and we're going to go to the mat here to see to it that they don't succeed.

    Media Matters for America - Limbaugh Wire 2009

  • Then when it comes down to the nutcracking time, it all seems to vanish and go away, and we're going to chronicle all of these discrepancies, from the promises to the reality, because this health-care plan is all about the destruction of the creation of wealth in America and the socialization of this country, and it won't work -- never has anywhere else -- and we're going to go to the mat here to see to it that they don't succeed.

    Media Matters for America - Limbaugh Wire 2009

  • Then when it comes down to the nutcracking time, it all seems to vanish and go away, and we're going to chronicle all of these discrepancies, from the promises to the reality, because this health-care plan is all about the destruction of the creation of wealth in America and the socialization of this country, and it won't work -- never has anywhere else -- and we're going to go to the mat here to see to it that they don't succeed.

    Media Matters for America - Limbaugh Wire 2009

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