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[fish-ee] / ˈfɪʃ i /


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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

Nadal spoke to WSJ about his fishy breakfast, exercising without pain and his love of classic film.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 2026

And T-Pain admitted he’s actually a #DoorDashPartner only after users began to smell something fishy.

From Slate Jun. 27, 2026

To help cut down the fishy smell, top the fish with your choice of acid, like fresh lemon juice or rice vinegar.

From Salon Jun. 6, 2026

It didn’t help that I stank of the filthy, fishy water in the boat, which had dried and crusted over me.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

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

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

The kind from my coastal neck of the woods eats fishier things, and although I have never eaten one, I have eaten other seaside birds, and they can taste like low tide.

From Washington Post Sep. 23, 2021

Even fishier, according to the medical examiners, there was a two-hour gap between the estimated time of death and when the cop called it in.

From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone

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

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

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

I never seen a pack o’ fools look fishier; and you may lay to that, if I tells you that looked the fishiest.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson




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