sardine
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Heat also fuels toxic algae blooms containing domoic acid, which contaminate the anchovy and sardine populations.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
“Better than being an old sardine tin with a few fins left in it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
Jackie Smook stands with a sardine puppet that she made in a day at her home workshop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025
Built for a housing association, it was known to taxi drivers as the sardine can, and both architects and their families took flats there.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2025
Probably the busiest time the girls of the Bear Flag ever had was the March of the big sardine catch.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
On today’s bait menu: a tin of Wild Planet sardines, a bag of tuna flakes and a clamshell container of roasted chicken wings Navratil picked up from 7-Eleven on the way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
To the Chumash, “a school of sardines would have looked like an enormous, dark shadow passing beneath the water.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The warming of the ocean surface is forcing anchovies and sardines -- which the mammals eat -- to seek cooler waters, either at deeper levels or farther north.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
One woman, Marie Pierre, is picking sardines from among the discarded jelly fish.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
It had a wire leader and a mediumsized hook and he baited it with one of the sardines.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
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