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Policies protecting marine wildlife have increased Cape Cod’s great white shark population, which is now one of the densest seasonal concentrations of white sharks in the world, as National Geographic’s Alexandra Owens reported last year.
—Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024
Perry managed to capture several images of the white shark feeding.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
In late summer, the white shark is known to frequent northern Tomales Point, on the Pacific.
—Tasha Zemke, Outside Online, 20 Sep. 2024
The researchers concluded that a white shark or shortfin mako shark must have munched on their pregnant porbeagle and ingested the tag temporarily.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2024
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First Known Use
circa 1674, in the meaning defined above
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“White shark.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white%20shark. Accessed 7 Nov. 2024.
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