crab
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“The state of California, working with California’s crab fleet, will be launching domoic acid testing here in about 60 days as we approach Dungeness crab season,” the state senator said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Serve them with crispy French fries and you’ve got a meal; or take things in a completely different direction with crab grilled cheese and peak-season tomato soup.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
During this phase, a live crab was placed inside a glass jar positioned so the octopus could see it only through the mirror.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026
"We know exactly where our water comes from, we grow our own food, we can catch crab and lobster," said Roberts.
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
Sunny had already been staring and shrieking at the figure for some time when Klaus looked up from the spiny crab he was examining, and saw it too.
From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket
She also shaved her head — all to add authenticity as her queen evolved from youth to crabbed old age.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
Right from the founding, then, analogical reasoning was bold and aspirational as frequently as it was crabbed and limiting.
From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2023
In the spring, Thompson crabbed, and when buyers counted crabs, the brothers said, his father often got shorted.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 26, 2022
This is a truly crabbed and reductive view of the man and his work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2021
Char’s hand was large and round, the letters evenly spaced, each fully formed—completely unlike my crabbed, spiky writing.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
The transmission malfunctioned in his 1978 boat, Miss Julie, which he also uses for crabbing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
A GoFundMe set up in Meadows’ name described the deckhand from Montesano, Wash., as a father to “three amazing little boys” who died “while doing what he loved — crabbing out on Alaskan waters.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026
Mr Walsh, who described himself as a "dabhand at handling crabs" after taking his kids crabbing on their holidays, said he gave the creature "a little stroke" and could see it was still moving.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2025
This is the fifth consecutive year of commercial crabbing delays instituted to decrease the chances of migrating whales currently off the coast getting ensnared by the crab-pot fishing lines.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2023
Then he moved again, crabbing forward, but when he got there Kiowa was almost completely under.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
