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Lucy Galvin, the city council leader, said she and other residents had noticed dead pike, carp, roach, eel, rudd and dace.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

Roughly a dozen people at the if-you-know-you-know event grooved and shuffled to EDM music while kayak enthusiasts paddled by and locals fished for carp.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

The agency has been working with staff at Milton Country Park, near Cambridge, to develop one of its ponds into a haven for crucian carp, a protected native species in the UK.

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

The firefighter has a side business taking tourists bow-fishing for the carp along the Illinois River, where he rigs nets around the boat for protection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

The two brown carp had seen us, and now they circled and waited for their master.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

To her critics, Breed closed with a quote from Theodore Roosevelt prizing the person who strives in spite of setbacks rather than the naysayer who carps from the sidelines.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2024

He carps constantly about what he sees as unfair coverage by the news media.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 22, 2018

“As big events go, it felt pretty small,” carps Andrew Rosenthal, former editorial page editor of the New York Times.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2016

The officially unofficial album/mixtape If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late gave us a Drake whose mind was racing faster than ever, confidently converting his carps into catchphrases with singular dexterity.

From Slate ● May 2, 2016

Catfish must be the smartest fish there is, it’s like them and carps were the only fish that added rocks and horseflies together and came up with something bad.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

Senior executives carped about Chapek to Disney board members.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2026

“You’re no fun anymore,” carped a college buddy I’d once partied with.

From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2023

They said she was a Brooklyn hipster with artificially inflated lips and carped her father was a millionaire who - allegedly - bankrolled her career.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2023

In The New Yorker, the influential and acerbic critic Pauline Kael carped that George Lucas was “in the toy business.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2022

It seems that because he didn't imitate Ingres in his choice of subject-matter he is carped at.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker

These interventions can irk the grassroots, and there will be some carping over the Daines move.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

Believe me, I’m completely aware that I sound like a Scrooge, a buzzkill harping and carping about innocuous movies that are meant to be little more than background noise while people scroll on their phones.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2024

Respectfully, the fans carping about coach DeShaun Foster after three games of a predictably difficult season are missing an essential point.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2024

After enough of his students’ carping, however, Hayes decided to put the snakes to the test.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024

Three years had passed since Bradbury had offered an almost identical defense to the AEC’s Colonel Fields, but Teller had never ceased carping about Los Alamos.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik