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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fins
  1. ones
  2. tens
  3. hundreds
  4. chips
  5. dollars
  6. fives
Noun
  • The companies and economies that endure will be the ones that can balance growth, resilience and sustainability—and change before outside pressure forces them to.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
  • As of late September, a few of the problems from the new list have been solved, including some landmark ones.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of ones
Noun
  • The Treasury Department moved last week to automatically enroll tens of millions of children and greenlight donations of individual stocks as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent touts the accounts ahead of midterms.
    — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Jaguar also asked for ratings from thousands of prospective buyers, and Glover said the car drew more ones and twos out of ten than the company usually sees, but also more nines and tens.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of tens
Noun
  • As the hundreds of thousands of people made their way down the narrow roads following the politician, a few rerouted into the industry event, still carrying big flags and with faces lit up with hope.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Like hundreds of others around the country, the school was closed.
    — NICOLAS GARRIGA, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of hundreds
Noun
  • Hundreds of billions of dollars have been poured into the buildout, and not just into AI labs and models, but data centers, semiconductor chips, and so on.
    — Yerbol Orynbayev, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2026
  • After initially struggling to build a market for the technology, the company continued developing HBM and eventually became the leading supplier of the memory chips used by NVIDIA (NVDA) in its AI accelerators.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of chips
Noun
  • The company remains one of the world’s largest automakers and carries the legacy of Dieselgate, the emissions-cheating scandal that cost it billions of dollars in fines, settlements and other penalties.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The advertising campaign has drawn criticism from those on the Left and the Right, who chided the administration for using taxpayer dollars for ads that appear political in nature.
    — Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of dollars
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
Definition of fives

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