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Lucy Galvin, the city council leader, said she and other residents had noticed dead pike, carp, roach, eel, rudd and dace.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

Roughly a dozen people at the if-you-know-you-know event grooved and shuffled to EDM music while kayak enthusiasts paddled by and locals fished for carp.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

The agency has been working with staff at Milton Country Park, near Cambridge, to develop one of its ponds into a haven for crucian carp, a protected native species in the UK.

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

The firefighter has a side business taking tourists bow-fishing for the carp along the Illinois River, where he rigs nets around the boat for protection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

Pong watched the people on the decks of their tidy homes as they pulled up nets of glittery carp or sat in semicircles, playing card games.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

To her critics, Breed closed with a quote from Theodore Roosevelt prizing the person who strives in spite of setbacks rather than the naysayer who carps from the sidelines.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2024

In this case, Buckley is cold on the lesser of the two watches, and showily unimpressed when Albert drops his price by $500: “Gee, thanks, boy, a whole $500,” he carps.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023

He carps constantly about what he sees as unfair coverage by the news media.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 22, 2018

“As big events go, it felt pretty small,” carps Andrew Rosenthal, former editorial page editor of the New York Times.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2016

Catfish must be the smartest fish there is, it’s like them and carps were the only fish that added rocks and horseflies together and came up with something bad.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

Senior executives carped about Chapek to Disney board members.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2026

“You’re no fun anymore,” carped a college buddy I’d once partied with.

From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2023

In The New Yorker, the influential and acerbic critic Pauline Kael carped that George Lucas was “in the toy business.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2022

It was a growth policy on steroids, carped one of the few doubters quoted in any of the coverage, the neighborhood activist John Fox.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 15, 2018

The river banks would be lined with spectators, who envied, criticised, and carped.

From A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Amanda Minnie Douglas

These interventions can irk the grassroots, and there will be some carping over the Daines move.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

In Werde’s view, Swift’s place atop the pop hierarchy makes such carping inevitable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025

Believe me, I’m completely aware that I sound like a Scrooge, a buzzkill harping and carping about innocuous movies that are meant to be little more than background noise while people scroll on their phones.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2024

After enough of his students’ carping, however, Hayes decided to put the snakes to the test.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024

Another reason I welcome the change is that Mama’s always carping at me, especially at the table.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank