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[fish-ee] / ˈfɪʃ i /


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And T-Pain admitted he’s actually a #DoorDashPartner only after users began to smell something fishy.

From Slate Jun. 27, 2026

To help cut down the fishy smell, top the fish with your choice of acid, like fresh lemon juice or rice vinegar.

From Salon Jun. 6, 2026

More than a year ago, federal officials noticed something fishy about a Glendale-based doctor: she had collected more in Medicare Botox reimbursements than any other provider in the nation.

From Los Angeles Times May 20, 2026

"Also, we have corporate sanctioned mobile devices and this came in via his personal phone. So that made him think this was potentially a little murky, a little fishy."

From BBC Mar. 2, 2026

Brimming with confidence, the Horrible Incorrigibles made their incognito exit, thus narrowly missing the fishy arrival of Edward Ashton and the even fishier return of Master Gogolev and his herring.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

As soon as I arrived in Livingston Manor, a hamlet around 120 miles north of New York City, my life became notably fishier.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

Faced with some stiff competition, one savvy float-building team at this year’s Rose Parade still managed to reel in a Guinness World Record title by setting its sights on something decidedly fishier.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 3, 2026

That all makes sense on one level, but Angela Huffman, head of Farm Action—a nonprofit that campaigns against the corporatization of the food system—believes there’s something fishier going on.

From Slate Apr. 18, 2025

Fish vary in their omega-3 levels and generally the fishier they taste the more omega-3 fats they have — such as tuna, salmon, deep sea perch, trevally, mackeral and snook.

From Salon Sep. 25, 2023

Even fishier, according to the medical examiners, there was a two-hour gap between the estimated time of death and when the cop called it in.

From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone

Mackerel is among the fishiest of fish, so I’m stoked by the clean flavor of the silvery specimen I encounter at Barrel & Crow.

From Washington Post Jun. 16, 2015

Indeed, one of the fishiest things about this entire story is that the Hoax of Hollywood conference lasted just one day.

From The Guardian Mar. 13, 2013

I recently visited some great friends in the Florida Panhandle and got to hang out in Destin, one of the neatest harbors and fishiest towns on the coast.

From Time Magazine Archive

Baja, Calif. Baja and the Sea of Cortez, featuring Cabo San Lucas and the East Cape region, is perhaps the fishiest place on earth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Before opening the campaign in Canada, let us, for a moment, step ashore in what our author styles the fishiest of modern capitals, St John's, Newfoundland.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various




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