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Lucy Galvin, the city council leader, said she and other residents had noticed dead pike, carp, roach, eel, rudd and dace.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

She said she and other residents had noticed dead pike, carp, roach, eel, rudd and dace.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

Similarly, pike have a well-developed lateral-line sensory system that allows them to sense vibration, movement and pressure changes in the water.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 2026

But if it’s part of a larger pattern of opacity, instability and conflicting messaging, something larger might be coming down the pike.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026

Even though the next morning he would leave on a dangerous mission, even though he knew something terrible was coming down the pike, those words of Mr. Benedict’s had made all good things seem possible.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

The collections of the Smithsonian contain, for instance, pikes from John Brown’s failed slave rebellion in the South in 1859.

From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2022

The store, in the Baileys Crossroads area, is northwest of the Skyline Towers development and southeast of the intersection of Leesburg and Columbia pikes.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2021

But avoiding pain is not always possible as elite divers perform a dizzying array of pikes, tucks and somersaults.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2021

With their cooperation, Brown diverted money from the cause of Kansas to the purchase of guns and simple iron pikes to arm the slaves he expected to follow him.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

As Mara held the main post with both hands, I positioned the pikes and Smithy hammered them into the ground.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Here’s what happened: First, my stomach sank as the Russian Olympic Committee’s normally-stunning Nikita Nagornyy debuted his triple back piked salto—only to almost sit down the landing and stumble out of bounds multiple times.

From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2021

The 'firework' 3.5 somersault with one twist routine replaces what had become known as his 'demon' dive - a piked 2.5 somersault, 2.5 twist routine - which Taylor actually invented.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2015

On bars, Douglas demonstrated why she is nicknamed The Flying Squirrel with the height of her piked Tkatchevs and double straight dismount and the US left no room for error on beam or floor either.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2012

She soared so high on her first release, flipping herself up and back over the bar, her legs piked, that she could have reached out and touched her toes before grabbing the bar.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 9, 2012

Peter dug his crutches into the turf and piked hard.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

"This time last spring," Bill said to her, "I was piking away north of those mountains, bound for the head of the Naas to prospect for gold."

From North of Fifty-Three by Anton Otto Fischer

He 's just a plain, ordinary, piking crook.

From Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport by J. V. McFall

I say, Rube, let's you and I be piking it for the college.

From Over the Line by Harold Morrow Sherman

I don't want anybody up here piking around just because I took a double header into space.

From Tom Slade at Black Lake by Howard L. (Howard Livingston) Hastings

Still piking, eh?" he chuckled; "you wouldn't trail along after Your Uncle Bunch and get next to the candy man, would you?

From Back to the Woods by Hugh McHugh