oyster
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The oyster was capricious; its pearls were the products of contingency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Other artefacts found there included pottery, animal bones and oyster shells.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Moving rapidly through dense pine forests, the blaze spread to the Cap-Ferret peninsula, a popular tourist destination on the Atlantic coast long favoured by wealthy French families and known for sand dunes and oyster shacks.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
There was one exception, a blue-collar oyster farmer and Marine veteran named Graham Platner.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
The shell was partly open, for the overhang protected this ancient oyster, and in the lip-like muscle Kino saw a ghostly gleam, and then the shell closed down.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
Pearl diving often relied on the barest necessities: a noseclip, leather finger covers and a basket to gather oysters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
As the smoke from France's worst wildfire in over 75 years rose over the Bassin d'Arcachon, a pair of nearby firefighters tucked into a plate of oysters plucked from the bay west of Bordeaux.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
"The Romans were incredibly fond of oysters," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Fish, mobile snails, sea urchins, and bivalves such as clams, oysters, and mussels all require faster metabolisms to support movement and, in many cases, predatory lifestyles.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
I jumped up and took her plate to the kitchen, scraped off the offending oysters, and brought it back, smiling as broadly as I could manage.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
Ms. Gunderson is also well served by much of the cast, particularly Mr. McNall, an Off Broadway treasure who was until recently oystered away at the Pearl Theater.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2017
He made a living through clamming and oystering but also ran a small business called “Better Tree Service.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2024
At its peak, according to the state, oystering in Apalachicola Bay supported approximately 2,500 jobs.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 8, 2020
“But it’s not too late to reclaim it,” Hartsfield said of the oystering way of life.
From Reuters ● Feb. 21, 2020
People still earned a living mostly from fishing, oystering, and trapping.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2019
There were only a few more days of oystering left that winter of ’44.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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