smelt
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As the state has relied heavily on its water, native fish such as Chinook salmon, steelhead trout and longfin smelt have declined.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
With the Springboks dominating in the basics, the crowd in Cape Town smelt blood as the lead stretched to 17-7.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
He and other environmental advocates say the voluntary deals struck by major water agencies would be disastrous for threatened and endangered fish, including salmon, steelhead, green sturgeon, longfin smelt and Delta smelt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
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
Racing back into the valley, he soon found it: the strange, shuffling thing that smelt so rotten.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
I used to avoid the old-school dishes – baccala, smelts, anchovies.
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
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
Laborers — partly fleeing potato famines in Scotland and Ireland — arrived in search of sustaining work in the flourishing iron smelts, coal and shipbuilding yards and textile factories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2015
He talks a detestable cant language, calling guineas "megs," and half-guineas "smelts."
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
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