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salmon

[sam-uhn] / ˈsæm ən /




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Both are tributaries of the Klamath River, where Chinook and coho salmon swim upstream to spawn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Chichizola and other environmental advocates say the state’s efforts since 2021 have helped but that more needs to be done to ensure a flowing river for salmon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The bears of Katmai spend summer and early autumn gorging themselves on salmon as they look to bulk up ahead of a long winter of hibernation.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

From June until mid October, the bears gorge on food, including salmon caught with their jaws or paws.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

But as it turned out, everyone who had eaten the smoked salmon in the first-class airport lounge during our layover in Poland—like I had—was now suffering these unfortunate consequences.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

Shotter said that salmon sperm “is harvested from salmons without harming them.”

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2024

As a result, the state has been trucking millions of salmons raised at hatcheries to the ocean each year, bypassing the perilous downstream journey.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2021

I like the salmons, and I dote on the fun and the fuss. 

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Charlotte Mary Yonge

"Put me up a fig o' tobacker, a pound of tea, quart o' merlasses, ten pounds of crackers, hunk o' pork, and two cans of them salmons," he ordered.

From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Holman Day

So wee weighed and went in and rode in five fathoms, oozie ground, and saw many salmons, mullets and rayes very great.

From Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York by Maud Wilder Goodwin




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