sardine
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Heat also fuels toxic algae blooms containing domoic acid, which contaminate the anchovy and sardine populations.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
They’re each playing tiny instruments — one a half-open sardine can, another a stringed matchbook.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
“Better than being an old sardine tin with a few fins left in it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
Built for a housing association, it was known to taxi drivers as the sardine can, and both architects and their families took flats there.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2025
Dr. Finch picked up the cracker and sardine and presented them to Rose Aylmer.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
On today’s bait menu: a tin of Wild Planet sardines, a bag of tuna flakes and a clamshell container of roasted chicken wings Navratil picked up from 7-Eleven on the way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
As Mr. Ogilvy writes, “now the abalone live in hatcheries, the sardines in tanks, the tuna in the fish holds of charter boats and gourmet custom cans.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
"At least today they gave us some rice, spaghetti and sardines."
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
One woman, Marie Pierre, is picking sardines from among the discarded jelly fish.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
That mangy, snake-eating reincarnation of Cleofes Apodaca showed up from time to time to share a tin of sardines with Pacheco, but he never went for Joe’s Beanfield.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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