smelt
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His deceit was uncovered when Helen's son smelt a rat and applied for Clare's Law, external, where you can ask if someone has a history of abusive offending.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 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
In my family, everyone new to the table — new partners, neighbors, friends — must try a smelt.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2025
Populations of Chinook salmon, steelhead trout, Delta smelt and other species have been declining in recent years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
With those words, he released me—which I was glad of, for his hand smelt of scented soap—and went his way downstairs.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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
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
Last fall, scientists doing a comprehensive survey recorded their lowest-ever seasonal tally of delta smelts, by a substantial margin.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2015
After this we were often very fortunate, and on one occasion caught, at one haul of the seine, sixteen hundred-weight of smelts, some weighing two pounds, and measuring twenty inches in length.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Fitzroy, Robert
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