carp
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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
She 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
On one outing near Carter’s home in central Illinois, a flying carp knocked his friend out cold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
I wondered if the water which flowed beneath this earth connected to the waters beneath our town, the waters of the golden carp.
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
But I also feel like a nag who carps on a million little things.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2016
“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
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
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
"I was told I'd have the exclusive," carped Dua Lipa.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2022
The public carped, but Graslin had the approval of his former partners, who praised a resolution that was somewhat uncommon.
From The Village Rector by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
After years of carping about it, I am pleased to find VW’s latest infotainment system now mentally competent and even fun to use.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 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
I was glad to escape Cristiana’s carping and her threats.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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