fins

Definition of finsnext
plural of fin, slang

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of fins Our fish farm worked beautifully right up until the NewCoral molted, growing fins and fangs and one rocky fin, terrorizing the coastline and hunting the NewFish almost to NewExtinction. Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025 The sharks are another story — their flesh is not well regarded and is often given away, while its fins are considered poor quality for the global shark fin trade. Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fins
Noun
  • The movie includes footage of real historical tragedies — harrowing video from liberated concentration camps — along with contemporaneous ones, like the crash of PSA Flight 182, which happened less than two months before Faces of Death was released.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026
  • For gamblers, especially younger ones who are just starting to earn and build the savings that will undergird their retirements, that can mean life-altering losses of wealth and financial stability.
    Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Investigators also found loaded guns and tens of thousands of dollars in cash.
    Jennifer Bisram, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Since 2017, a series of destructive wildfires has cost tens of billions of dollars, including last year’s Los Angeles firestorms.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The Clairton plant provides 1,200 manufacturing jobs and hundreds of millions in tax revenue to the area.
    Stephanie Armour, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Sitting in a tired-looking office painted in beige and brown, al-Abidin said his agency dispatched forensic experts along with officials from Civil Defense, the Sudanese Red Crescent and neighborhood committees in July to scour parts of the capital for hundreds of mass graves.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Fortune’s Amanda Gerut reports the company is worried the reputational risk could strain its relationship with $4 trillion chipmaker Nvidia, which supplies Supermicro with chips.
    Jim Edwards, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Spicy bread-and-butter pickle chips add just the right amount of kick.
    Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Five million American dollars were burned.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • And Iran was profiting handsomely off its sales, selling its oil for a premium of several dollars above the price of Brent crude, the international benchmark.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 12 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • 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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“Fins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fins. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.

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