chum

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The team's findings, published in Ecology & Evolution, showed that anisakid levels increased in chum and pink salmon between 1979 and 2021.

From Science Daily • Apr. 1, 2026

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

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

Chum - To join someone as a companion, as in "I'll chum you along".

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2025

Rode in the boot of a small auto belonging to a chum of Papa Thibaut’s, a Citroen Rosalie—4-cylinder engine, at least 10 years old, running—just—on a disgusting mix of coal tar and sugar-beet ethanol.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein