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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.
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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
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
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But as was proven later, in conflicting accounts like the ones here, the Band didn’t quite go quietly into that night.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
2 Nov. 2025
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But the brave ones grow stronger and want to express more.—
Gavin J Blair,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Nov. 2025
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Nonessential employees, including tens of thousands of government scientists, are barred from working and stop receiving paychecks.—
Kenneth M. Evans,
The Conversation,
3 Nov. 2025
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Trump’s signature bill this summer gutted Medicaid and ended health insurance subsidies, a combination that will drive health spending up for tens of millions.—
Semafor Events,
semafor.com,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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In a bid to deliver a quick turnaround, the new top executive initiated a plan to close hundreds of stores, or about 1% of its locations, in the United States and Canada.—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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The shutdown has resulted in the interruption of SNAP benefits for millions of Americans and hundreds of thousands of federal employees furloughed or working without pay.—
Jenna Sundel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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In an interview with Fortune, Brockman described building AGI as an end-to-end engineering challenge, one that spans everything from how the models are designed to the chips, servers, and data centers that power the training and running of models.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
5 Nov. 2025
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That is, until Tuesday, when amid a surprise turnaround in 2025, Indianapolis GM Chris Ballard pushed all of his chips to the center of the table and acquired star cornerback Sauce Gardner in a trade with the New York Jets.—
James Boyd,
New York Times,
5 Nov. 2025
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Minnesota’s energy assistance program is processing applications but the state’s Department of Commerce said federal LIHEAP dollars will likely be delayed by a month.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
2 Nov. 2025
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More than 600 charity partners were represented by runners in Sunday's race, with millions of dollars raised.—
NPR,
NPR,
2 Nov. 2025
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“Fins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fins. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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