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Lucy Galvin, the city council leader, said she and other residents had noticed dead pike, carp, roach, eel, rudd and dace.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

She said she and other residents had noticed dead pike, carp, roach, eel, rudd and dace.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

But if it’s part of a larger pattern of opacity, instability and conflicting messaging, something larger might be coming down the pike.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026

Even if it was a pretty incredible northern pike, his first.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

A pike of unprecedented size had been caught in the Skahazadhan, and the fisherman wished to give it to the queen.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

She added: “Probably done 100 Yurchenko double pikes, and the first one and then the last one I’ve done, they all feel the same — scary.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2024

Wooden pikes floated up next to store windows.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2023

One gun did not give its possessor an advantage in battle over opponents armed with swords, pikes, or lances.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

Arriving in the Tibetan quarter of Chengdu, where tens of thousands of Tibetans live under the state’s watchful gaze, officers with pikes and batons stand sentry while police lights flash red and blue.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2022

The two guards stood out on the street, holding their pikes.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

Here’s what happened: First, my stomach sank as the Russian Olympic Committee’s normally-stunning Nikita Nagornyy debuted his triple back piked salto—only to almost sit down the landing and stumble out of bounds multiple times.

From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2021

Almost 20 years later, Memmel hopes to add her name to a new type of piked Arabian.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2020

The 'firework' 3.5 somersault with one twist routine replaces what had become known as his 'demon' dive - a piked 2.5 somersault, 2.5 twist routine - which Taylor actually invented.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2015

She soared so high on her first release, flipping herself up and back over the bar, her legs piked, that she could have reached out and touched her toes before grabbing the bar.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 9, 2012

Peter dug his crutches into the turf and piked hard.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

You don't look as if you had come to that—though it's queer the sort of fellows you do meet piking sometimes.

From The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Last seen she was piking off after Miss Busy Buzzy.

From Marjorie Dean College Freshman by Pauline Lester

The topography was nearly as broken, in its way, as the natural "piking" spread over it, and very beautiful with the dense forests lighted by the slanting yellow rays of the afternoon sun.

From Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills by Luella Agnes Owen

I say, Rube, let's you and I be piking it for the college.

From Over the Line by Harold Morrow Sherman

"This time last spring," Bill said to her, "I was piking away north of those mountains, bound for the head of the Naas to prospect for gold."

From North of Fifty-Three by Anton Otto Fischer