crab
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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
Williams, whose main course options include Porth Eirias dressed crab and Welsh lamb, said he would never exile the scone.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
The crab curry is so delicious and they do these street food sausages that we crave.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 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
And then I sprint to the crab apple tree that’s first base.
From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan
This is a crabbed and mendacious interpretation of the law.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
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
The real issue raised by this new crabbed system of historical reasoning is the intellectual stance, temperament, and habits lawyers, judges, and legislators should bring to the task of historical, analogical reasoning.
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
The writing was just as crabbed as Nhamo’s.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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
A fundraiser 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 ● Mar. 3, 2026
Benjamin Cullis, from Padstow, had been fishing and crabbing with his family when he fell off the harbour wall and hit his head on the side of a yacht on 24 June 2023.
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2024
In the far north, where crabbing was supposed to be allowed starting Dec. 1, there’s a second issue: Testing in Mendocino, Humboldt and Del Norte counties revealed poor crab meat quality.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2023
In the daytime we went snorkeling or crabbing or wakeboarding behind the skiff.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
