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She 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

Parola says he has taken his fair share of carp hits over the years, but never to the head.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

I could hear the jink-jink sound of that carp hitting the net and the screams and laughs of the audience from half a block away.

From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis

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

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

The officially unofficial album/mixtape If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late gave us a Drake whose mind was racing faster than ever, confidently converting his carps into catchphrases with singular dexterity.

From Slate ● May 2, 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

And after violating a gag order 10 times, he carped carefully, particularly after Merchan threatened jail time.

From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2024

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

From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2023

They said she was a Brooklyn hipster with artificially inflated lips and carped her father was a millionaire who - allegedly - bankrolled her career.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2023

Indeed, after an enormous strain of the constructive intellect, a man may be in no humour to have his work carped at, even to improve it.

From Practical Essays by Alexander Bain

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

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

“A lot of discourse around it. A lot of carping back and forth. A lot of anger. A lot of commentary,” Stewart said.

From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2024

Before those who now, for the sake of the Savage, paid their court to him, Bernard would parade a carping unorthodoxy.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley