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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
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Courts have weighed in on video gambling machines, including ones with cell phone charging functions.—
Hope Karnopp,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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After four rounds and more than 10,000 votes in IndyStar's Beer Bracket, the king of the cold ones has been crowned.—
Bradley Hohulin,
IndyStar,
27 Oct. 2025
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The leading theory behind the moon’s formation suggests that in the earliest days of our solar system, baby Earth was flying solo until, after some tens of millions of years, a Mars-size object collided with it and sent debris flying into space.—
Lila Shroff,
The Atlantic,
27 Oct. 2025
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Dozens of investigators have been involved in chasing down at least four suspects who targeted the Louvre’s Apollo Gallery in a brazen daylight raid, fleeing with jewelry worth tens of millions in a matter of minutes.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN Money,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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By comparison, during the last two years, there were hundreds spotted.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Japan says at least 17 of its citizens were snatched by North Korean agents in the late 1970s and 1980s – alongside hundreds of unexplained cases.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
28 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Qualcomm calls the new chips AI200 and AI250, and they’re intended for generative AI inference in data centers.—
Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
28 Oct. 2025
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The guest list for the event includes senior American politicians and Silicon Valley glitterati, and comes as US officials mull whether to allow Nvidia to sell its cutting-edge Blackwell chips to China.—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
28 Oct. 2025
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Koch said that in recent years, fewer SNAP dollars have been spent at the market following program reductions and that many producers in the Janesville area rely on EBT programs to maintain already slim profit margins.—
Anna Kleiber,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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The company aims to produce thousands of the weapons annually at full rate production, with a target cost in the hundreds of thousands of dollars per unit.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Fins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fins. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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