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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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Instead, York started running with the ones three months into arriving on campus.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
8 May 2026
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Because of this thin atmosphere, helicopters flying on Mars must spin their rotors faster than on Earth to generate lift, and heavier vehicles need more lift than lighter ones.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
8 May 2026
Noun
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Prospect owed tens of millions of dollars in local property taxes and more than $120 million to the state for unpaid provider taxes.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
9 May 2026
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It’s estimated that tens of thousands of people were killed by the country’s government.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
9 May 2026
Noun
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Sacramento’s political establishment backed Maple’s challenger, and hundreds of thousands of dollars poured into the race.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
10 May 2026
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Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft have been plowing hundreds of billions of dollars a year into AI.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
10 May 2026
Noun
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Beijing also seeks access to top-end chips made by American manufacturers.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2026
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Another task involved answering elementary school questions with a giant pencil, and the final showdown was over a Plinko-esque game with specialized chips.—
Patrick Connolly,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 May 2026
Noun
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During the first three months of this year, Frontier Airlines disclosed an operating loss of two hundred and eighty-three million dollars.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
11 May 2026
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The city and these businesses spend thousands of dollars each year cleaning up.—
Michael Perkins,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 May 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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“Fins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fins. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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