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carp

[kahrp] / kɑrp /


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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

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

He includes some carp recipes in his “Can’t Beat ‘Em, Eat ‘Em!” cookbook, and wants to start a business to sell frozen Copi croquettes.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 8, 2026

Ultima’s cure and the golden carp occupied my thoughts the rest of the summer.

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

It was a growth policy on steroids, carped one of the few doubters quoted in any of the coverage, the neighborhood activist John Fox.

From Seattle Times Aug. 15, 2018

Mr Trump often carped about President Barack Obama's penchant for golf.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2017

Byron sneered and carped at Southey as a "scribbler of all works."

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge

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

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

From Science Magazine Apr. 3, 2024

“A lot of discourse around it. A lot of carping back and forth. A lot of anger. A lot of commentary,” Stewart said.

From New York Times Feb. 27, 2024

The carping had subsided, he wrote, but few of the carpers had as yet made the “amende honorable” that now clearly was due Chicago.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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