How to Use free-swimming in a Sentence
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That way, when the tuna show up the hooked baits blend in with the free-swimming chum.
—Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
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Red light switches them back into a free-swimming state.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 May 2026
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From that polyp colony, free-swimming medusae bud off and develop into mature adults within a matter of weeks.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
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The effect has been especially damaging on corals, oysters, and free-swimming snails and slugs.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 July 2026
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Warm-bodied fish at risk The scientists from Trinity and UP created a new framework to estimate the metabolic rate in free-swimming fish, according to the press release.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 19 Apr. 2026
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