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bounty

[baun-tee] / ˈbaʊn ti /


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Expect a series of escape room-inspired puzzles to unravel, a bounty of ’80s references and a chance to encounter a Teddy Ruxpin doll.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Then at San Quentin, Shermantine made a deal with a bounty hunter to provide directions to the remains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Such weather extremes may have caused queens to abandon their nests or die, reducing the initial spring queen bounty to a more modest population.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

In 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute made the Navier-Stokes equation one of the seven problems worthy of a million-dollar bounty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

“We’ve been frantic with worry—the other rangers are on your island right now. We heard rumors about a bounty on her head. Is that true?”

From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins

He never saw protection of domestic manufacturing as a long-term policy but rather insisted that “continuance of bounties on manufactures long established must almost always be of questionable policy.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

It is unclear if lifting the bounties was a part of the negotiations.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2025

Come dinnertime at 5 p.m., its menu shifts to family-style meals, featuring a large seafood lineup with bounties from its live fish tanks.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024

A lone fisher or group of happy fishers would go to the ocean, a river or lake, then haul in endless bounties of aquatic creatures.

From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2024

“And do they have our bounties, like, broken down on a price list?”

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan




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