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pellets

  • plural of pellet.
  • present tense form of pellet (3rd person singular).

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Pellets are fed back into the reactor with a simple grain elevator, and the reactor itself has no moving parts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Bear Mountain BBQ Pellets – Your favorite pellet smoker will appreciate the quality and variety of Bear Mountain BBQ pellets.

From Salon • Nov. 20, 2025

Pellets so small you can fit 800 of them into this blaster, and so cheap it’ll come with 10,000 of them right out of the box.

From The Verge • Jul. 19, 2022

“Could I ask you to give a shout out for the Ivor Cutler song Pellets? A rendition of which is surely maintained for the full 90 minutes by the Pellets faithful at every home match.”

From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2021

“A likely story! Sneaking around on your own — why aren’t you in Hogsmeade buying Stink Pellets and Belch Powder and Whizzing Worms like the rest of your nasty little friends?”

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling