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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Beetle grubs may spend seven years boring through wood and extracting nutriment from that most indigestible of materials, cellulose.
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Having a rather poor root system, it gets nutriment mainly from the water.
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I imagined I had discovered a nutriment which, on tasting it, renders one all-powerful and all-knowing.
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Seeds, of course, are much richer in nutriment than any fleshy coating.
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Whatever the program offered at the hour when he walks into the room will be the nutriment that he accepts and swallows.