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This isn’t the only thing going on this summer that gives me that ominous fin de siècle feeling.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

A female gripped the fish by its large tail fin, which provided a secure hold, while a male gained speed and charged toward them.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026

For these reasons, the AI IPOs have less a forward-looking than a fin de siècle aura about them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

Tide tables have become the stuff of national interest, and rare moments when the exhausted whale has blown water or flapped its fin have warranted breaking news bulletins.

From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026

The vuvv speak by grinding a sort of gritty fin against their body, so most of what we said, translated, sounded like sandpaper or, when we were shouting, Velcro.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

The sharks have huge fins that are desirable in some parts of the world, they don’t fare well if caught accidentally and released and are facing “extreme declines” due to overfishing, Talwar said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

Some were equipped with life buoys or swimming fins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

But the fins are swooped up by traders for the international markets, where they are used in shark-fin soup.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

Matthews said the device actually contained "a load of cardboard fins that get wet as the water blows past them".

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Auk X sat on the pad and fizzled, producing some white smoke and just enough thrust to rock it gently on its fins.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

The fossils extend the earliest known record of finned octopuses by about 15 million years and push back the broader octopus timeline by around 5 million years.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026

Magnus wrote in his 1555 book they were 200-feet long with broad, forked tails and finned feet, with faces resembling warthogs and dual blow-holes on the top of their heads.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 28, 2023

Large finned automobiles that resemble 1950s classics hover over smooth roads, as do baby carriages across perfectly clean sidewalks in perfectly manicured suburbs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2023

That idea was bolstered last year when Ibrahim’s team announced the discovery of a finned, eel-like Spinosaurus tail.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2021

The little fish leaped from the water to show the smooth shine of their finned tails and the rabbits turned their rumps so the Terrible Things could see for themselves.

From "Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust" by Eve Bunting

While finning regulations have not led to decreased shark deaths, Simpfendorfer points out they weren’t designed to reduce catches, but to prevent suffering and the waste of sharks being killed for their fins alone.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 11, 2024

It’s less wasteful than finning, he admits, “but a dead shark’s a dead shark.”

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 10, 2024

The practice of shark finning, whereby sharks are caught for their fins and their carcasses then dumped back into the ocean, has been banned in U.S. waters for decades.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2022

And finning is already illegal in U.S. waters.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2022

"Headin' straight out to sea when dry ground's off that way," said Murray, finning feeble hand to starboard, "ain't what Dan'l Webster would do, with his intellect, if he was here."

From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Holman Day