carp
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Roughly a dozen people at the if-you-know-you-know event grooved and shuffled to EDM music while kayak enthusiasts paddled by and locals fished for carp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
The agency has been working with staff at Milton Country Park, near Cambridge, to develop one of its ponds into a haven for crucian carp, a protected native species in the UK.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
He’s also built a cage around the front of their inner tube, and gives everyone nets to catch the carp.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
Geological Survey, the carp can jump as high as 10 feet into the air when spooked by outboard motors or other disturbances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
He shouted, not even your golden carp would give up that power as a god!
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
To her critics, Breed closed with a quote from Theodore Roosevelt prizing the person who strives in spite of setbacks rather than the naysayer who carps from the sidelines.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
He carps constantly about what he sees as unfair coverage by the news media.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 22, 2018
But I also feel like a nag who carps on a million little things.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2016
“As big events go, it felt pretty small,” carps Andrew Rosenthal, former editorial page editor of the New York Times.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2016
Catfish must be the smartest fish there is, it’s like them and carps were the only fish that added rocks and horseflies together and came up with something bad.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
Senior executives carped about Chapek to Disney board members.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2026
“You’re no fun anymore,” carped a college buddy I’d once partied with.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2023
In The New Yorker, the influential and acerbic critic Pauline Kael carped that George Lucas was “in the toy business.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
"I was told I'd have the exclusive," carped Dua Lipa.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2022
Indeed, after an enormous strain of the constructive intellect, a man may be in no humour to have his work carped at, even to improve it.
From Practical Essays by Bain, Alexander
These interventions can irk the grassroots, and there will be some carping over the Daines move.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
Believe me, I’m completely aware that I sound like a Scrooge, a buzzkill harping and carping about innocuous movies that are meant to be little more than background noise while people scroll on their phones.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2024
After enough of his students’ carping, however, Hayes decided to put the snakes to the test.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024
“A lot of discourse around it. A lot of carping back and forth. A lot of anger. A lot of commentary,” Stewart said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
Three years had passed since Bradbury had offered an almost identical defense to the AEC’s Colonel Fields, but Teller had never ceased carping about Los Alamos.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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