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fins

noun

plural of fin, slang

as in ones

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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

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Noun

Evaluation metrics also change frequently, as new ones get created.

— Emily Forlini, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026
Several people — some alive and some dead — were laid by the roadside as attendees tried to help the ones who were still alive.

— Saleh Mwanamilongo, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of ones

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Between the Buried and Me will perform for tens of thousands of fans on the same stage as Mastodon and Gojira at one of the country’s largest rock and metal festivals.

— Courtney Devores, Charlotte Observer, 15 Sep. 2026
Now, without his muse by his side, Messi may decide soccer is no longer enjoyable and simply walk away, leaving tens of millions of dollars on the table after having already made more than $1 billion from the game.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of tens

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Chinese researchers have outlined a future tank that could generate its own power and strike targets hundreds of miles away.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2026
The 2,000-pound bombs have been employed by Israel on hundreds of occasions in Gaza and Lebanon, playing a significant role in the death toll of those conflicts.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of hundreds

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The collaboration with Qualcomm adds another layer of semiconductor expertise, potentially allowing the companies to develop chips specifically tailored to the requirements of AI inference.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2026
Onsemi makes power chips, which convert energy surging through data centers, cars, and factories.

— J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of chips

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The big dollars often envisioned for top-10 picks like him were not there.

— Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
However, the sole-source paradigm proved lucrative for ULA’s corporate parents, which each reported hundreds of millions of dollars in earnings from ULA per year in the first decade of the company’s existence.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026

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