shrimp
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Red Lobster filed for bankruptcy in 2024, after its disastrous $20 all-you-can-eat shrimp deal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
A few kilometres from the base lies the town of Taura, a community of around 9,400 people connected by dusty roads and surrounded by shrimp farms.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
The bulk of its workforce was made up of indigenous Wayuu, thousands of whom were hired to peel and package shrimp in processing plants around Maracaibo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Another major supplier of seafood to the U.S. is India, which produces roughly a third of the shrimp that Americans consume, almost all of it grown with fishmeal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Macon returned with a basket and avalanched pink shrimp, corn on the cob, and red potatoes across the paper-covered table.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
For its owner, Greenlandic company Polar Seafoods, which sells shrimps, crab and halibut, shorter and direct flights mean new business possibilities.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2024
It’s a pre-pre-pre-teen dance party, with sounds provided by the Linda Lindas, dressed as shrimps; Portugal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2024
"Pachystropheus probably lived the life of a modern-day otter, eating small fish or invertebrates such as shrimps," says Dr David Whiteside, another supervisor.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2024
Trillions of fish, shrimps, amphipods, jellyfish, and squid rise to feed, using the cover of darkness to hide from predators.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 13, 2024
“I’m goin’ up the river to catch some shrimps and crabs.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
As a youngster, Jenkins shrimped with his father.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 22, 2021
“There’s no good price for shrimp, and sometimes there’s no catch,” said Robert Griffin, a retired Golden Meadow oil worker who shrimped in his youth.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 24, 2018
When ur was a little chile ur shrimped with 'n! an' when ur was a gert maiden ur walked out with 'n!
From The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 by A. R. (Augustus Robert) Buckland
It is true, such things as these go for Wit so long as they continue in Latin; but what dismally shrimped things would they appear, if turned into English!
From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Professor Thomas Seccombe Arber
Ms. Langlinais, who also owns a marketing business, grew up in a shrimping family in Biloxi, Miss., immersed in the elaborate world of Mardi Gras.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
Dan Ellison started shrimping when he was 12, bringing a change of clothes on the boat so he could make it to school after early-morning outings.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2023
Working on a tugboat didn't bother Alton the way it bothered many other Pointe-aux-Chenes residents who had been forced to give up shrimping and fishing.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2023
It’s home to snowbirds, service industry workers and a large commercial shrimping industry.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2022
“Reggie died in Georgia. According to Coach Douglas, he’d found work on a shrimping boat. There was an accident out in the water. He went overboard.”
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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