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shark

[shahrk] / ʃɑrk /














NOUN
harpy
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NOUN
racketeer
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“These companies, they’re like a shark, they have to keep moving,” said Christopher Whalen of the credit-markets research and advisory firm Whalen Global Advisors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

He also advises recreating in areas where there are lifeguards keeping an eye out for sharks and to avoid swimming or surfing around dawn and dusk when shark feeding behavior tends to peak.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

The study appears in the journal Animal Behaviour under the title: "Rolling in the deep: drivers of social preferences and social interactions within a bull shark aggregation in Fiji."

From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026

Meanwhile, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, the Labour MP for Clapham and Brixton Hill, compared the terms of student loans "to something that a loan shark would offer".

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026

Even though Fred and I started the research together, the white shark page was blank when he died.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen