crab
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Commerce shows up in three stereoscopic prints, taken by Keystone Co. between 1905 and 1908, of Maryland’s oyster and crab industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
In 1988, he started selling the iconic blue crab found in the waters of Venezuela’s giant Lake Maracaibo before expanding into shrimp farming and later into supermarkets and processing recyclable materials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Earlier this week, Anthropic hosted a limited giveaway of “Clawd” plushies and stickers — a reference to the pixelated crab logo featured in the Claude Code terminal tool.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
Raxa had stepped up his crab fishing in the days before the accident to afford an evangelical trip to his home country of Laos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Two feet over the water, a crab lets go.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
This is a crabbed and mendacious interpretation of the law.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
She also shaved her head — all to add authenticity as her queen evolved from youth to crabbed old age.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
Right from the founding, then, analogical reasoning was bold and aspirational as frequently as it was crabbed and limiting.
From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2023
But it is quite another for the judiciary to apply that same crabbed conception to speech beyond the school setting.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2021
Lying on top of a volume of the World Book Encyclopedia, a grubby piece of lined paper was folded in half, with “Marion” written on the outer edge in Bunny’s tiny, crabbed hand.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
The transmission malfunctioned in his 1978 boat, Miss Julie, which he also uses for crabbing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
A fundraiser set up in Meadows’ name described the deckhand from Montesano, Wash., as a father to “three amazing little boys” who died “while doing what he loved — crabbing out on Alaskan waters.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026
Benjamin Cullis, from Padstow, had been fishing and crabbing with his family when he fell off the harbour wall and hit his head on the side of a yacht on 24 June 2023.
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2024
The earliest that commercial crabbing could begin in the far north would be Dec. 16, state officials said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2023
“We’re coming in from crabbing early these hot mornings,” he blabbed.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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