Nugget
noun
A small chunk or lump, especially of gold or another precious material.
He found a large nugget of gold in the stream.
Often appears as...
- gold nugget
- nugget of information
noun
An essential or valuable piece of information.
The report contained a few nuggets of insight into how the pandemic started.
Often appears as...
- nugget of advice
- nugget of wisdom
noun
A small piece of chicken or another food, usually fried and eaten as a snack or fast food.
We ordered a couple of boxes of chicken nuggets.
Often appears as...
- chicken nugget
- nugget with sauce
noun
In basketball, a successful shot that does not touch the rim or backboard.
It was a clean nugget, straight through the net.
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Colloquial
noun
A small chunk or lump, especially of gold or another precious material.
He found a large nugget of gold in the stream.
Often appears as...
- gold nugget
- nugget of information
noun
An essential or valuable piece of information.
The report contained a few nuggets of insight into how the pandemic started.
Often appears as...
- nugget of advice
- nugget of wisdom
noun
A small piece of chicken or another food, usually fried and eaten as a snack or fast food.
We ordered a couple of boxes of chicken nuggets.
Often appears as...
- chicken nugget
- nugget with sauce
noun
In basketball, a successful shot that does not touch the rim or backboard.
It was a clean nugget, straight through the net.
Usage tips
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Material Value
Use 'nugget' to describe small pieces of something valuable, like gold or diamonds, to emphasize rarity and worth.
She wore a necklace with a single, shiny nugget of diamond.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Literal
'Nugget' can be metaphorical, representing something precious, often used for humor or affection.
You're a real nugget in the rough, my friend.
Pro Tip 1/2Material Value
Use 'nugget' to describe small pieces of something valuable, like gold or diamonds, to emphasize rarity and worth.
She wore a necklace with a single, shiny nugget of diamond.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Literal
'Nugget' can be metaphorical, representing something precious, often used for humor or affection.
You're a real nugget in the rough, my friend.
Pro Tip 1/2Material Value
Use 'nugget' to describe small pieces of something valuable, like gold or diamonds, to emphasize rarity and worth.
She wore a necklace with a single, shiny nugget of diamond.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Literal
'Nugget' can be metaphorical, representing something precious, often used for humor or affection.
You're a real nugget in the rough, my friend.
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Tom Chatfield: 7 ways...
When someone is more likely to remember, we can give them a nugget in a window. And the second thing is confidence, that we can see how game-playing and reward structures make people braver, make them more willing to take risks, more willing to take on difficulty, harder to discourage. This can all seem very sinister.
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Building a culture of...
who are doing well in advanced courses in college placement scores at our school we had explosive growth in all of those areas but we didn't start exclusively focusing on those areas we had hundreds of people who visited our school and I wanted to come and find a nugget that they could take back and
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4 larger-than-life...
Each new face triggered a change in the character's life and personality. Now, there was always an essential nugget of Carly in there, but the character and the story adapted to whomever was playing her. And here's what that means for us. While we may not swap faces in our own lives,
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Why does the universe...
the state-of-the-art physics, can show how out of sheer nothingness, no space, no time, no matter, nothing, a little nugget of false vacuum can fluctuate into existence, and then, by the miracle of inflation, blow up into this huge and variegated cosmos we see around us.
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Embrace your raw,...
headed in the only direction worth going, the direction of myself, trying to help us all refuse the awful bargains we've been taught to take. We're taught to turn ourselves and our work into little nuggets that are easily digestible;
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Isha Datar: How we could...
stable temperature, pressure, inflows, outflows, etc. And after those cells get a chance to proliferate and differentiate, mature into muscle fibers, we might harvest the cells and the tissues and then turn them into a nugget,
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How to rebuild the world...
is a lovely nugget of nutrition but it's hard and indigestion so what we need to do is break down that grain to release the nutrition so that our bodies can absorb it and the most important inventions of
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Monitor Lizard...
his nuggets done a great job just clearing out all this of actual tissues just a bag of skin over those bones what would happen in the world what we're gonna do now is introduce some beetles
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Before Time and Space PIPE...
infinitesimal nugget of space and then something happened triggering the most colossal explosion in history in a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a second the universe grew
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California Drought...
nuggets are rare here this is mostly a lot of fine just fine there's a nice little chunks though sometimes quite nice little chunks nice plate
Video examples
Tom Chatfield: 7 ways...
When someone is more likely to remember, we can give them a nugget in a window. And the second thing is confidence, that we can see how game-playing and reward structures make people braver, make them more willing to take risks, more willing to take on difficulty, harder to discourage. This can all seem very sinister.
Video examples
Building a culture of...
who are doing well in advanced courses in college placement scores at our school we had explosive growth in all of those areas but we didn't start exclusively focusing on those areas we had hundreds of people who visited our school and I wanted to come and find a nugget that they could take back and
Video examples
4 larger-than-life...
Each new face triggered a change in the character's life and personality. Now, there was always an essential nugget of Carly in there, but the character and the story adapted to whomever was playing her. And here's what that means for us. While we may not swap faces in our own lives,
Video examples
Why does the universe...
the state-of-the-art physics, can show how out of sheer nothingness, no space, no time, no matter, nothing, a little nugget of false vacuum can fluctuate into existence, and then, by the miracle of inflation, blow up into this huge and variegated cosmos we see around us.
Video examples
Embrace your raw,...
headed in the only direction worth going, the direction of myself, trying to help us all refuse the awful bargains we've been taught to take. We're taught to turn ourselves and our work into little nuggets that are easily digestible;
Video examples
Isha Datar: How we could...
stable temperature, pressure, inflows, outflows, etc. And after those cells get a chance to proliferate and differentiate, mature into muscle fibers, we might harvest the cells and the tissues and then turn them into a nugget,
Video examples
How to rebuild the world...
is a lovely nugget of nutrition but it's hard and indigestion so what we need to do is break down that grain to release the nutrition so that our bodies can absorb it and the most important inventions of
Video examples
Monitor Lizard...
his nuggets done a great job just clearing out all this of actual tissues just a bag of skin over those bones what would happen in the world what we're gonna do now is introduce some beetles
Video examples
Before Time and Space PIPE...
infinitesimal nugget of space and then something happened triggering the most colossal explosion in history in a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a second the universe grew
Video examples
California Drought...
nuggets are rare here this is mostly a lot of fine just fine there's a nice little chunks though sometimes quite nice little chunks nice plate
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Quote examples
Jeff Bezos
American Businessman
Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
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Twinkle Khanna
Indian Businesswoman
Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a lighter note, I am basically unwrapping the truth from a different perspective, and that makes it funny.
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Pete Docter
American Director
Monsters,' everybody has the thought of monsters in your closet as a kid, and more importantly, the idea of becoming a parent. We're always kind of looking for those emotional nuggets. They're always at the heart of the story.
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Kevin Hart
American Actor
If you look at me close enough, there's a small resemblance to a chicken nugget. I don't know if it's my skin texture or my hair, but the resemblance is definitely there.
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RJ Cyler
American Actor
Acting-wise, I'm way more comfortable finding out new things about the actor in me and RJ as a person. There's a lot of new nuggets that I can dip in the sauce.
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John C. Maxwell
American Clergyman
Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.
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Annalee Newitz
American Journalist
A hard-hitting investigative report that uncovers a nugget of genuine truth is the ultimate viral hit.
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Matt Besser
American Actor
You're always starting with a nugget of truth, whether it's a song or an improv scene.
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Reggie Fils-Aime
American Businessman
We love experimentation. That's where the gold nuggets come from.
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Hannah Brown
American Celebrity
I am basically a walking McDonald's chicken nugget.
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Jeff Bezos
American Businessman
Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
Quote examples
Twinkle Khanna
Indian Businesswoman
Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a lighter note, I am basically unwrapping the truth from a different perspective, and that makes it funny.
Quote examples
Pete Docter
American Director
Monsters,' everybody has the thought of monsters in your closet as a kid, and more importantly, the idea of becoming a parent. We're always kind of looking for those emotional nuggets. They're always at the heart of the story.
Quote examples
Kevin Hart
American Actor
If you look at me close enough, there's a small resemblance to a chicken nugget. I don't know if it's my skin texture or my hair, but the resemblance is definitely there.
Quote examples
RJ Cyler
American Actor
Acting-wise, I'm way more comfortable finding out new things about the actor in me and RJ as a person. There's a lot of new nuggets that I can dip in the sauce.
Quote examples
John C. Maxwell
American Clergyman
Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.
Quote examples
Annalee Newitz
American Journalist
A hard-hitting investigative report that uncovers a nugget of genuine truth is the ultimate viral hit.
Quote examples
Matt Besser
American Actor
You're always starting with a nugget of truth, whether it's a song or an improv scene.
Quote examples
Reggie Fils-Aime
American Businessman
We love experimentation. That's where the gold nuggets come from.
Quote examples
Hannah Brown
American Celebrity
I am basically a walking McDonald's chicken nugget.
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