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  • noun Plural form of nugget.

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Examples

  • You struck a new land in pioneer days, and you picked up money like a lot of sailors shaking out nuggets from the grass roots in

    CHAPTER VI 2010

  • If AP or other old-line news organizations are expecting to skim gold nuggets from a feed of photos like that, and save money in the process, I think it's unrealistic.

    What's "replacing" PJs? 2007

  • The nonsense continues with three recent nuggets from the world of baseball regarding Pete Rose, androstenedione and the San Diego Padres and their relationship with a Native American casino.

    Baseball swings and misses - again 2000

  • You struck a new land in pioneer days, and you picked up money like a lot of sailors shaking out nuggets from the grass roots in a virgin placer — ­

    The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London 1916

  • Here are some more Jane nuggets from the June/July Issue of Men’s Fitness, as provided to the Keeping Fit blog by a PR rep for the magazine.

    Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Thomas Jane Does ‘Men’s Fitness’ Magazine 2010

  • But we still hit the Sturgeon’s Law problem: with so much urban fantasy out there, how am I ever going to be able to sift out the gold nuggets from the flood?

    Who’s Afraid of Urban Fantasy? « 2009

  • Anthony Neil Smith, the mastermind behind Plots With Guns, brings us a novel-length story that would be right at home among the 4,000-word nuggets PWG presents each quarter.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • Although I certainly do not deny the significant environmental and fuel-saving benefits to choosing a hybrid automobile over any traditional gas-sucking American SUV or luxury sedan, I really believe that our endangered planet - including all those 50 billion sentient beings callously referred to by Outback and McDonald's as "ribs" and "nuggets" - is urgently crying out for much faster and more dramatic action on our part than simply switching vehicles.

    Global Warming Goes Mainstream 2007

  • Chops and three 'veg' I hate shortened words were never on high rotation in the house of my childhood, but irrespective of that, any dinner plate with three vegetables on it is going to be a whole lot healthier than the pre-packaged rubbish parents are 'force-feeding' - to use the editor's term - their children today; when they're not taking them out for chicken nuggets, that is.

    What I cooked last night. 2007

  • Lighter than they look, the nuggets are a comfortable weight.

    Meet Phyllis of Personal Treasures and Mufi Jewels Studio Marcy - Marcy Lamberson 2007

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