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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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These include cargo drones like the ones Skyways makes as well as attack drones, for which the Pentagon recently announced a competition for contracts tied to the first phase of its new Drone Dominance Program.—
Karoline Leonard,
Austin American Statesman,
6 Feb. 2026
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Crowds gathered to watch the dogs cross the finish line, some particularly exhausted ones riding on their owners' sleds rather than pulling them.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
6 Feb. 2026
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That leads to high temperatures, which create a glowing protostar due to the rapid (kinetic) motion of the internal gas particles, and eventually, after a few tens of millions of years, the core temperatures rise high enough (above 4 million K or so) that nuclear fusion of hydrogen begins.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
6 Feb. 2026
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Decline, and the money flows to other states, taking tens of millions in tutoring and academic support with it.—
Shlomo Soroka,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Feb. 2026
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Foro Penal estimates that hundreds of additional political prisoners still remain behind bars.—
Diego Mendoza,
CNN Money,
9 Feb. 2026
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The emails show how easily some digital media figures and companies were taken advantage of; publications that were publishing hundreds of articles a day hardly blinked when a positive article about a financier showed up, or a serious-sounding foundation official asked for an image tweak.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
9 Feb. 2026
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Multiple chips are then grouped together to create FinalSpark’s Neuroplatform (aka.—
Matthew S Williams,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Feb. 2026
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PlayStation consoles rely on a type of dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, chips, which are in short supply as demand from artificial intelligence and data center operators increases.—
Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
5 Feb. 2026
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His officials have cut billions of dollars in Harvard's federal research funding and attempted to block it from enrolling foreign students after the campus rebuffed a series of government demands last April.—
JOCELYN GECKER,
Arkansas Online,
8 Feb. 2026
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That care, however, dwindled into neglect in the final months of the woman's life as the two pocketed thousands of dollars and supported a drug habit, according to prosecutors.—
Logan Smith,
CBS News,
8 Feb. 2026
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“Fins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fins. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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