chum
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The team's findings, published in Ecology & Evolution, showed that anisakid levels increased in chum and pink salmon between 1979 and 2021.
From Science Daily • Apr. 1, 2026
He landed the role of Marty’s chum Dion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
"The next morning, it was clear that Maxwell had conferred with her royal chum because she told me: 'You did well. The prince had fun.'"
From BBC • Oct. 19, 2025
When reporting out his story, I contacted Stern, the filmmaker and old prep school chum who made The Preppy Murder.
From Slate • Oct. 13, 2025
Then another and another until there’s a whole school of tinker mackerel darting up to nibble on the chum, fighting one another for the pieces I been cutting up and dropping into the water.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
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