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The deal also benefits shellfish producers after the EU banned British fishermen from selling live mussels, oysters, clams, cockles and scallops to its member states in 2021.

From BBC • May 19, 2025

I considered the monkfish, the mackerel, the cockles.

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2025

And the vision of Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought or, indeed, Elon Musk being frog-marched off to the hoosegow will warm the cockles of many a heart.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2025

Found in the warm, equatorial waters of the Indo-Pacific, heart cockles have a mutually beneficial relationship with microscopic algae that live inside their tissues.

From Science Daily • Dec. 2, 2024

The cockles of Billy’s heart, at any rate, were glowing coals.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut