salmon
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At noon, Neri has a simple lunch—a salad with either chicken or salmon, a green apple, and water—and takes half an hour to “reflect on the morning, slow down, maybe read some news.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
But the warm ocean water will be a blow to juvenile salmon, and that won’t show up until two or three years later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Pair the greens with your favorite grains, whether that’s brown rice, quinoa or farro, and oven-baked salmon.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Bryant said he hoped the work would help "right some wrongs" that affected not just eel numbers but also salmon and trout in rivers.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Later I saw her by the supper table, her keen eyes searching the food, and she heaped a plate high with salmon and lobster mayonnaise and went off into a corner.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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Shotter said that salmon sperm “is harvested from salmons without harming them.”
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2024
As a result, the state has been trucking millions of salmons raised at hatcheries to the ocean each year, bypassing the perilous downstream journey.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2021
The present which they sent for his kitchen, and was laid upon the pavement in the hall, 359 was this:—four great whole sturgeons, two great fresh salmons, one calf, two sheep, two lambs.
From A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. by Morton, Charles
So wee weighed and went in and rode in five fathoms, oozie ground, and saw many salmons, mullets and rayes very great.
From Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York by Goodwin, Maud Wilder
There is a river in Macedon; there is also, moreover, a river in Monmouth: 'tis as like as my fingers to my fingers, and there is salmons in both!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various
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