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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shrimp
fish
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Lastly, Kyaw Zayar Lin's photo at the top of this story features children fishing in the early hours of the day in the wetlands of Myanmar's Inle Lake.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
21 Mar. 2026 -
Hell, the movie even opens with several of the men fishing together off a lakeside dock — could any activity be more emblematic of straight, middle-class, American dadness?—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Mar. 2026
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“Shrimp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shrimp. Accessed 28 Mar. 2026.
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