prawn
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Right now, I’m getting the melon salad, egg plate and the spotted prawn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Massara, an Italian restaurant in New York City, even serves a cold pasta: a chilled spaghetti with red prawn and briny, decadent sea urchin.
From Salon ● May 30, 2025
Products like albacore tuna and spot prawn can come from Vancouver, B.C.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023
Denmark’s smørrebrød: Butter dark rye bread and add sliced avocado, prawn mayo and chives.
From BBC ● May 10, 2023
Trapped in my bond in this wretched life, I felt like the river prawn we’d found that day.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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Depending on the day, they’ll have six or 21 of the prawns, so sometimes they’ll hold me one when they know I’m coming in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
"Everything is there. I was stuck here," he told AFP in Karachi, near the well-known Bengali market where he peddles desiccated fish and prawns to make ends meet for $7 to $9 per day.
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
“It had sardines, I believe, anchovy, tuna, and prawns on it,” Skimehorn said.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025
Many US buyers have paused new orders for prawns as trade talks with Washington continue, Seafood Exporters Association of India secretary-general K N Raghavan told the BBC.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
Today, someone else was in it, haggling with a buyer over a mound of fat prawns.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
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