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Recent Examples of kingfish Bonito also make a wonderful bait for species ranging from wahoo and kingfish to grouper and snapper. Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 6 June 2025 His signature dishes include Nikkei-style local kingfish tataki, grilled seafood with tomato chili vierge sauce, rock lobster carpaccio with yuzu passion fruit sauce, and pineapple coconut cake with rum syrup. Kaila Yu, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025 The oysters share a menu with only-in-the-Emirates ingredients like khansour, a mountain plant often used in salads, and kingfish from the Arabian Gulf, served ceviche-style. Samantha Wood, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Nov. 2024 Diamond Jig The classic four-side diamond jig has been around for nearly a century and from Atlantic halibut in the fjords of Norway to cod in Nova Scotia to yellowtail kingfish in California, there are very few saltwater species that won’t smack one. Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 17 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for kingfish
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Noun
  • Poltergeist pairs two Hollywood heavyweights, with Steven Spielberg behind the story and Tobe Hooper in the director's chair — and the result is pure movie magic.
    Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Oct. 2025
  • For now, economic heavyweights California and New York are treading water but could easily tip the scales.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • If the Rockets go big-heavy often, Reed Sheppard loses some shine.
    Stan Son, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The shift to bonds may indicate investors are rebalancing to keep their asset allocations from getting too stock-heavy, Austin said.
    Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Green and Horford getting six minutes apiece in the first quarter, for example, works as Green would be fresher down the stretch of games to defend the opposition’s bigs.
    Jannelle Moore, Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Not only did San Diego State graduate its three regular bigs – Kim Villalobos, Adryana Quezada and Cali Clark – from the Mountain West Tournament champions, point guard and leading scorer Veronica Sheffey transferred through the portal to TCU.
    Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In a nutshell, the Trojan prince Paris sails to Sparta to capture Helen, the beautiful wife of the king of Sparta, Menelaus.
    Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
  • For three long weeks that began to seem rude or impertinent, as if the Prize hadn’t been announced, as if a king and queen weren’t waiting for his answer, Dylan said nothing about the award.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Both the actor and the Oscar-winning director speak Spanish, which is what del Toro would use to tell him about, for example, the unlikely parties of a mouse and a lion in a risqué situation.
    Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The departure was recommended by the Lion Species Survival Plan, which guides lion management for many zoos, according to Hardwick.
    Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • All of these prices reflect standard/queen sizes, however, the options in this guide come in king sizes too.
    Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Like bees, wasps, and other ants, carpenter ants are social and live in a colony with a single queen and thousands of workers.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Kingfish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kingfish. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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