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Concisely, in a few words, as in Here's our proposal—in a nutshell, we want to sell the business to you . This hyperbolic expression alludes to the Roman writer Pliny's description of Homer's Iliad being copied in so tiny a hand that it could fit in a nutshell. For a time it referred to anything compressed, but from the 1500s on it referred mainly to written or spoken words.

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So, in a nutshell, the team has made progress, they have a better driver line-up and you're seeing it in the performance of the car.

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�� are the main revelations in a nutshell?

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“That, in a nutshell, is the entertainment business.”

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That's the problem in a nutshell, not just for the 2024 Harris campaign, but for the Democratic Party over the past two generations, the neoliberal world order and liberal democracy as a whole.

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So, in a way, “Nazarene” is the whole movie — and the whole Jeymes Samuel — in a nutshell.

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