blubber
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A more definitive answer, however, will have to wait until he receives results from blood, blubber and tissue samples collected from the whale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025
Their evidence included finding stone harpoon points that hadn’t been used since the mid-1800s embedded in the blubber of whales recently killed by traditional whalers.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2024
The country is one of only three in the world that still allow whaling - where whales are hunted for their meat, blubber and oil - along with Japan and Norway.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2024
They swim slowly and near shore, have thick blubber and float when killed, according to Jessica Crance, a research biologist with the Cetacean Assessment and Ecology Program at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center.
From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2024
The crew began using Inuit techniques to hunt seal, preserve seal blubber, and gather green spring lichens, which helped ease their scurvy.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
The singer himself told The Times in 1992 that the album’s hit ballad, in which a grizzled narrator blubbers over the one that got away, “had a real strong emotional peak on the record.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
No other show sent me ping-ponging between uncontrollable giggles and mask-dampening blubbers.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2021
Junior blubbers and begs … and finally, to Krug’s satisfaction, does as he’s told.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 1, 2015
He blubbers about beauty, about shame, about the death of cats, about art, about John McEnroe’s tennis defeats, about movies, about fatherhood, about rejection, about love, about fear.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2014
But really I’m thinking, what can you do with a man who blubbers when you make him pancakes?
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
One night she introduced herself to Jones, who was directing her then-boyfriend in a short play, and, by Waller-Bridge’s account, blubbered incoherently about being an actress.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2019
“And yet I still separate my career to before February 2017 and what came after,” he blubbered between heaves of tattle-crying.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 28, 2019
Bubba blubbered after each of his other three victories, too.
From Chicago Tribune ● Apr. 9, 2012
“A bunch of sandlotters, those Mets,” he blubbered.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2012
I said a bunch of other things and blubbered as everyone stared at me.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
On restaurant outings I have pulled up a scene from the cinematic gem “Hoosiers” and gotten choked up while my kids prayed I wouldn’t still be blubbering when the waiter came.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
Darts world champion Deta Hedman said she was "blubbering like a child" after winning the sport's top prize.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
Keep a box of tissues close by: I was a blubbering mess two minutes in, when Hanks follows Murray’s cold open with one of the eulogies from Candy’s funeral.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2025
You’re going to just get stern and I’m just going to be a blubbering idiot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
The effect wouldn’t be the same if Matt were a drooling, blubbering thing on a hospital bed.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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