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Recent Examples of shrimper
The Real Deal Even when shrimpers like Nacio innovate to become more efficient, their product can still be undercut by false advertising.
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Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 24 Mar. 2025
Fight started with an Alabama shrimper who was denied benefits during COVID
Derek Bateman, an independent shrimper in Alabama, spent months trying to appeal after being denied benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic.
—Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
Using dip nets, recreational shrimpers can quickly scoop up the daily limit of five gallons of shrimp with the heads on.
—Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
According to Facebook posts made about the search and rescue attempt, the Coast Guard searched throughout the night between November 30 and December 1.
Per Alabama TV station WKRG reporting, Wooley was a father of four and is a seasoned fisherman and shrimper.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
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Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 24 Mar. 2025
Fight started with an Alabama shrimper who was denied benefits during COVID
Derek Bateman, an independent shrimper in Alabama, spent months trying to appeal after being denied benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic.
—Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
Using dip nets, recreational shrimpers can quickly scoop up the daily limit of five gallons of shrimp with the heads on.
—Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
According to Facebook posts made about the search and rescue attempt, the Coast Guard searched throughout the night between November 30 and December 1.
Per Alabama TV station WKRG reporting, Wooley was a father of four and is a seasoned fisherman and shrimper.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
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After the crew’s last letters were sent home from the coast of Greenland, Franklin’s two ships, the Erebus and the Terror, were last sighted by whalers off Baffin Island.—
Cassidy Randall,
Forbes.com,
3 Aug. 2025
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Near the Bering Strait, the crew spotted the Brunswick, incapacitated after striking ice and surrounded by other whalers preparing to buy off its goods.—
Francine Uenuma,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 June 2025
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After 30 years at Cravath, Mosley moved to BDT, a financial advisory firm founded by Byron Trott, who is best known as Warren Buffett’s banker, and was now focused on helping wealthy people manage their estates.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
9 Sep. 2025
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The care with which David Sacks tracks his days in Washington has been described to me, variously, as matching the focus of a banker avoiding New York City taxes or as a (pre-GLP-1) dieter on Weight Watchers.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The Italian yard, known for building high-performance steel and aluminium workboats, established Forte Yachts to produce stylish pleasure crafts.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
28 Aug. 2025
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Rose’s father, Kommer, is among the few billionaires in the field, thanks to his idea of introducing standardization and modular manufacturing from the car industry to building workboats, which shorten delivery times and reduce production costs.—
Zinnia Lee,
Forbes,
19 Dec. 2024
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And since each ship carried three to five whaleboats, the amount of rope needed just to conduct whaling operations on one whaleship was as much as ten thousand feet.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Aug. 2025
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In Robert Brill’s set, the stage is shaped like a half-pipe with rungs, so that cast members scramble, pitch, tumble, and row flimsy whaleboats over massive waves.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
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Three other Scottish squad reinforcements -- lock Gregor Brown, hooker Ewan Ashman and prop Rory Sutherland -- were named on the bench.—
Nick Mulvenney,
Reuters,
21 July 2025
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Strip clubs, booze, hookers, blow, the whole nine yards.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The excess metal goes into roll off boxes or lugger boxes at the customer's factory.—
Susan Tompor,
Freep.com,
3 July 2025
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One of the luggers offered her the pick of the litter but warned against some old chairs.—
Jake Offenhartz,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Snooks Moore comes from a long line of commercial Cook Inlet fishers and is herself a sixth-generation gillnetter.—
Anchorage Daily News,
Anchorage Daily News,
12 Mar. 2022
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In Puget Sound, gillnetter Pete Knutson competes against 70-foot purse seiners that are usually corporate-owned.—
Richard Adams Carey,
WSJ,
25 Apr. 2018
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On Saturday, Bretal and Vega boarded a scalloper and embarked on a fishing trip that took a horrifying turn when their vessel apparently capsized and sank Sunday about 28 miles off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, according to the US Coast Guard.—
BostonGlobe.com,
BostonGlobe.com,
26 Nov. 2019
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The four men on the scalloper, which had left from New Bedford, Massachusetts, did not appear to be wearing life jackets, Noel said.—
Ben Kesslen,
NBC News,
25 Nov. 2019
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“Shrimper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shrimper. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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