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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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While there are many genuinely helpful hacks found online, professional organizers can easily identify which ones are best to skip.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
13 Jan. 2026
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Moving out of old tracks to fancy new ones all over the country alienated a large portion of its core constituency.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Jan. 2026
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It was buried inside a shipping container alongside a silencer, an Uzi submachine gun and tens of thousands of bullets of different calibers.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
7 Jan. 2026
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Although the divorce left Cher with limited immediate wealth, the royalty agreement proved to be valuable in the long-term, reportedly earning her tens of millions of dollars paid out gradually over decades.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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In a field experiment with hundreds of consultants, GPT-4 improved speed and quality on some knowledge tasks while performance dropped on other, seemingly similar tasks just outside its strengths.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
8 Jan. 2026
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In San Francisco, hundreds of people gathered for a protest and march to speak out against ICE, with many expressing anger and outrage about the fatal shooting in Minneapolis.—
Andrea Nakano,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The vehicle is powered by an in-vehicle supercomputer built around eight NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor system-on-chips based on the Blackwell GPU architecture.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Jan. 2026
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Semiconductor manufacturing requires huge amounts of ultra-clean water to rinse residue from silicon chips during the fabrication process, resulting in wastewater that contains pollutants, including heavy metals, which can be toxic to aquatic ecosystems and humans.—
Angela Palermo,
Idaho Statesman,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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A couple of hundred dollars is cheap insurance compared to a major water damage bill.—
Kamron Sanders,
Better Homes & Gardens,
13 Jan. 2026
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Some clerics control enormous charitable foundations worth billions of dollars through donations from followers and budgets from the state, while others operate modest local mosques with minimal resources.—
Narges Bajoghli,
Time,
13 Jan. 2026
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“Fins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fins. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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