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Recent Examples of fin
When the researchers adjusted the robot’s fin angle by just a few degrees, the negative lift disappeared.
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Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026
Harvest registration may include an examination of the fish's internal organs and removal of a piece of fin tissue for DNA analysis or aging.
—Tanya Wildt, Freep.com, 5 Jan. 2026
Returning to Fawn Bluff by boat in the magic hour light, someone spotted a fin.
—Katie Nanton, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2025
The air is thick with fin-de-siècle celebration and Y2K anxiety.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2025
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Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026
Harvest registration may include an examination of the fish's internal organs and removal of a piece of fin tissue for DNA analysis or aging.
—Tanya Wildt, Freep.com, 5 Jan. 2026
Returning to Fawn Bluff by boat in the magic hour light, someone spotted a fin.
—Katie Nanton, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2025
The air is thick with fin-de-siècle celebration and Y2K anxiety.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fin
Noun
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By the same stage in this one, the figure was 23.—
Andy Mitten,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2026
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But, a glove found about two miles from the house appeared to visually match the ones worn by the suspect, according to the FBI.—
Chelsea Bailey,
CNN Money,
20 Feb. 2026
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The full effects of DOGE cuts to tens of thousands of federal contracts and agreements may never be fully known, experts say, and controversy lingers.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
22 Feb. 2026
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Thousands of people were killed and tens of thousands are believed to have been arrested.—
Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Feb. 2026
Noun
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He is joined by six of his players — many more will join by half-time, arriving in ones and twos, shuffling over the teal concrete — and by assorted members of the Xavier clan, all wearing colourful training kit.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
19 Aug. 2025
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Like the ones will go against the ones, ones will go against the twos, so everybody basically gets to see everybody on the roster at some point on the field.—
Matt Le Cren,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Aug. 2025
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But some, especially tourists who might have spent thousands of dollars on their week-long skiing holiday, are less likely to heed avalanche warnings.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
22 Feb. 2026
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In an alarming change that could force Cupertino, Saratoga and Los Altos Hills to slash millions of dollars from their budgets or raise local taxes, the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office is revamping a long-standing contract that provides those cities with public safety services.—
Luis Melecio-Zambrano,
Mercury News,
21 Feb. 2026
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LaPour was the preseason Big 12 Pitcher of the Year and got his season off to a strong start against Vanderbilt, giving up two runs off fives hits in five innings of work with five strikeouts.—
Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Feb. 2026
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In overall ice time, including all levels of competition five-on-five, McDavid and Draisaitl are on the ice for 55 percent of the total.—
Allan Mitchell,
New York Times,
2 Feb. 2026
Noun
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For the record, the Aztec Room & Patio can accommodate some 200 visitors, and yes, that 19-foot ceiling is genuine 18-karat--nary a pre-Depression sawbuck was spared when constructing this masterpiece.—
David Weiss,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
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In most cases, $10 above the single-Mac price gets you three licenses; another sawbuck raises that to five.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
15 Apr. 2025
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Activities that have real bang for the buck for a kid.—
Outside,
Outside,
23 Feb. 2026
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Diana comes to check on her, helps her pack, and gives her a buck-up speech.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
17 Feb. 2026
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Nvidia is the dominant seller of accelerator chips, processors designed to handle the huge amounts of data needed to create artificial intelligence models.—
Bloomberg Wire,
Dallas Morning News,
25 Feb. 2026
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The results for the November-January period blew past the analyst projections that shape investors’ perceptions, as has been the case since Nvidia’s high-end chips emerged as AI’s best building blocks three years ago.—
Boston Herald Wire Services,
Boston Herald,
25 Feb. 2026
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“Fin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fin. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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