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fishing

[fish-ing] / ˈfɪʃ ɪŋ /


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Do as the bears do in Alaska and go fishing for wild salmon.

From Salon

One does wonder how the actors fishing while swapping such insipid dialogue don’t cross their leaders and spend most of the time untangling, before flying their plane into the middle of a Rocky Mountain thunderstorm.

From The Wall Street Journal

While there is debate about why so many Chinese fishing vessels would gather in geometric formations in the open sea, experts widely agree that they were not there to fish.

From Barron's

Yet Iran primarily sets mines using frogmen on small boats that resemble ordinary fishing vessels, an informal maritime militia of dinghies that is virtually impossible to identify and eliminate.

From The Wall Street Journal

Iranian mine-laying ships can be small, less than 50 feet long, and look like fishing vessels.

From Barron's