smelt
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Look no further than GameStop’s $56 billion bid for eBay, which is the equivalent of a smelt swallowing a whale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
As they probed the earth, they smelt the dirt, looking for the distinctive odour of human remains.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
"We spent around an hour getting all the glass out and the porch smelt a bit, but you can imagine."
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2025
In my family, everyone new to the table — new partners, neighbors, friends — must try a smelt.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2025
It smelt of lawn sprinklers and station wagons and tennis rackets and dogs and babies.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
The old heads insist on classics like smelts and baccalà, but there’s enough variety that the more “acquired taste” dishes don’t define the night.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2025
"I don't think it would have happened from any area other than Aston with all of those foundries and factories and the smelts and the bomb sites," he adds.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
As part of a limited bar food menu, Beberman will be workshopping new dish ideas for the restaurant, including fried smelts and chicharrones over pork belly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2019
There was a recent first-person piece on the art of luring crafty little fish called smelts from the icy waters of Maine.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2017
The smelts run up, when winter is still at its height.
From A Northern Countryside by Richards, Rosalind
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