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Marquis Brown always reports the job scams he encounters on LinkedIn and marks fishy emails for spam.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026

Which makes all the more striking that nothing fishy seems to be going on in the enforcement actions against Mr. Walter, which prompted the Lakers sale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

The meat has been described as tasting like a cross between kipper and steak or "salty goose" and, less flatteringly, as "rotten leather and fishy beef", external.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

And you don’t have to be standing on the banks of the Kenai River to smell something fishy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

“We can’t hide my whole family, it’ll look too fishy and they can’t all leave their jobs,” said Ron.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

As soon as I arrived in Livingston Manor, a hamlet around 120 miles north of New York City, my life became notably fishier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

Faced with some stiff competition, one savvy float-building team at this year’s Rose Parade still managed to reel in a Guinness World Record title by setting its sights on something decidedly fishier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2026

That all makes sense on one level, but Angela Huffman, head of Farm Action—a nonprofit that campaigns against the corporatization of the food system—believes there’s something fishier going on.

From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2025

Fish vary in their omega-3 levels and generally the fishier they taste the more omega-3 fats they have — such as tuna, salmon, deep sea perch, trevally, mackeral and snook.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2023

Brimming with confidence, the Horrible Incorrigibles made their incognito exit, thus narrowly missing the fishy arrival of Edward Ashton and the even fishier return of Master Gogolev and his herring.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Mackerel is among the fishiest of fish, so I’m stoked by the clean flavor of the silvery specimen I encounter at Barrel & Crow.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2015

Indeed, one of the fishiest things about this entire story is that the Hoax of Hollywood conference lasted just one day.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 13, 2013

I recently visited some great friends in the Florida Panhandle and got to hang out in Destin, one of the neatest harbors and fishiest towns on the coast.

From Time Magazine Archive

Baja, Calif. Baja and the Sea of Cortez, featuring Cabo San Lucas and the East Cape region, is perhaps the fishiest place on earth.

From Time Magazine Archive

In fact, it is about the fishiest of all the fishy stories ever told.

From Bible Romances First Series by G. W. (George William) Foote