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Once a center of fur trading and canneries, Astoria is located at the mouth of the Columbia River, close to the Pacific Ocean.—Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2026 Del Monte Foods plans to shut down its Modesto cannery — which will cost about 600 year-round jobs and another 1,200 seasonal jobs during harvest season.—Angela Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 17 Jan. 2026 Ryan and Mahoney’s team took over a vacant former cannery — at least one wall of which remains on the grounds of the Solar Turbines plant — and completed the build within Lindbergh’s 60-day timeline.—Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026 There, Rauff worked as the manager of a crab cannery in Patagonia, and apparently as an interrogator in one of Pinochet’s torture centers.—Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cannery