peanuts
noun
a trifling amount of money
peanuts
British
/ ˈpiːˌnʌts /
noun
“Peanuts”
Cultural
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I finished the bowls with scallions, salted roasted peanuts and lime.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
Researchers at Maastricht University Medical Center in the Netherlands have found that regularly consuming unsalted, skin-roasted peanuts can improve how certain brain regions respond to insulin in older adults.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
I covered myself in bits of cardboard, packing tape and foam peanuts and overdid my makeup with several coats of mascara and thick black eyeliner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
"My husband was promised work - payment stopped for the work and we were literally living off peanuts and I just remember crying," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Ambuya sat in the corner, grinding peanuts in a small mortar.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
The Starbucks items featuring the “Peanuts” characters — known for animated classics like “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” — were intended to promote the return of Starbucks’s pumpkin-spice latte.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
Alexandra Parfitt, 46, a biostatistician, was disappointed to discover her 9-year-old daughter had copied and pasted an internet description of a “Peanuts” cartoon character into a school presentation on Google Slides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
I’m starting to think large numbers of American voters — and especially conservatives — have never read the “Peanuts” comic strip.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 3, 2026
Growing up, Bella Shingledecker loved the holiday season because it meant that the “Peanuts” animated specials would be back on the air.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
Their goal is to honor Schulz’s storytelling, she added, and with 18,000 “Peanuts” strips in the archive, licensees have plenty of material to pull from.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
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