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oyster

[oi-ster] / ˈɔɪ stər /






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Brady ran like was lugging two bushels of oysters.

From The Wall Street Journal

The mother of the princesses, later the Queen Mother, had warned her that “people in positions of confidence with us must be utterly oyster.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Like the grit in the oyster, there’s a solid core of truth inside the vanity of wild price swings.

From The Wall Street Journal

Thousands of European oysters have been placed on the Belfast Lough seabed, in a bid to bring back native reefs that had almost disappeared.

From BBC

My husband and I love the lobster, crab, shrimp and oysters.

From Los Angeles Times