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A more definitive answer, however, will have to wait until he receives results from blood, blubber and tissue samples collected from the whale.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025

Their evidence included finding stone harpoon points that hadn’t been used since the mid-1800s embedded in the blubber of whales recently killed by traditional whalers.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2024

The country is one of only three in the world that still allow whaling - where whales are hunted for their meat, blubber and oil - along with Japan and Norway.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2024

They swim slowly and near shore, have thick blubber and float when killed, according to Jessica Crance, a research biologist with the Cetacean Assessment and Ecology Program at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center.

From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2024

Shackleton told Green to start adding large chunks of blubber to the crew’s food.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

The singer himself told The Times in 1992 that the album’s hit ballad, in which a grizzled narrator blubbers over the one that got away, “had a real strong emotional peak on the record.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

No other show sent me ping-ponging between uncontrollable giggles and mask-dampening blubbers.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2021

Junior blubbers and begs … and finally, to Krug’s satisfaction, does as he’s told.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 1, 2015

He blubbers about beauty, about shame, about the death of cats, about art, about John McEnroe’s tennis defeats, about movies, about fatherhood, about rejection, about love, about fear.

From New York Times ● May 27, 2014

But really I’m thinking, what can you do with a man who blubbers when you make him pancakes?

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick

One night she introduced herself to Jones, who was directing her then-boyfriend in a short play, and, by Waller-Bridge’s account, blubbered incoherently about being an actress.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2019

“And yet I still separate my career to before February 2017 and what came after,” he blubbered between heaves of tattle-crying.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 28, 2019

Bubba blubbered after each of his other three victories, too.

From Chicago Tribune ● Apr. 9, 2012

“A bunch of sandlotters, those Mets,” he blubbered.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2012

Being whacked with a rake seemed to work miracles on Lice Peeking’s attitude—he’d dropped to one knee, told Shelly he adored her, and blubbered he was sorry for all the rotten deeds he’d ever done.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

On restaurant outings I have pulled up a scene from the cinematic gem “Hoosiers” and gotten choked up while my kids prayed I wouldn’t still be blubbering when the waiter came.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

Keep a box of tissues close by: I was a blubbering mess two minutes in, when Hanks follows Murray’s cold open with one of the eulogies from Candy’s funeral.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2025

You’re going to just get stern and I’m just going to be a blubbering idiot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2023

And he said he was glad to be travelling with Paralympian Tanni Grey-Thompson, as "I would've just been a blubbering mess otherwise."

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2021

And the bumpkin stood it humbly, blubbering a little and sucking his teeth.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck