chum
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A Harvard chum found him a job at the then-middling firm of William A. Read & Co.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
"The next morning, it was clear that Maxwell had conferred with her royal chum because she told me: 'You did well. The prince had fun.'"
From BBC • Oct. 19, 2025
When reporting out his story, I contacted Stern, the filmmaker and old prep school chum who made The Preppy Murder.
From Slate • Oct. 13, 2025
In 2022, 80% fewer king salmon returned to the Yukon River than the 30-year average and 90% fewer chum salmon returned to western Alaska.
From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024
Then another and another until there’s a whole school of tinker mackerel darting up to nibble on the chum, fighting one another for the pieces I been cutting up and dropping into the water.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
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"Diary of a Wimpy Kid" by Jeff Kinney
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