bounty
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Then at San Quentin, Shermantine made a deal with a bounty hunter to provide directions to the remains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Such weather extremes may have caused queens to abandon their nests or die, reducing the initial spring queen bounty to a more modest population.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
This time the action takes place on New Year’s Eve, but let’s tally the gift bounty anyway.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026
The stolen antiquities follow other types of bounty the RSF has ransacked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
And yet, in spite of the new bounty of food, it was time for the last dogs to go.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
He never saw protection of domestic manufacturing as a long-term policy but rather insisted that “continuance of bounties on manufactures long established must almost always be of questionable policy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Come dinnertime at 5 p.m., its menu shifts to family-style meals, featuring a large seafood lineup with bounties from its live fish tanks.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
A lone fisher or group of happy fishers would go to the ocean, a river or lake, then haul in endless bounties of aquatic creatures.
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2024
The Enhanced Games has put million-dollar bounties on world records: move fast, break records and you can earn big.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2024
By treating wheat strains with such “shock therapy,” Lysenko argued that he could make the plants flower more vigorously in the spring and yield higher bounties of grain through the summer.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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