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

A Harvard chum found him a job at the then-middling firm of William A. Read & Co.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 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

Chum - To join someone as a companion, as in "I'll chum you along".

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2025

Perhaps he had be come frustrated watching his boyhood chum collect accolades and public acclaim for his marvelous engineering while complacently performing atrocious physics.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik