shrimp
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When they can’t effectively capture patterns and nuance, models rely on general rules-of-thumb understanding, such as “cooked shrimp appear roughly circular and have banded striations,” Schossau said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
In a recent test, Schossau asked Google’s Nano Banana to make AI photos of mac-n-cheese and shrimp scampi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Sher voted against 1986 legislation that purported to open the way for a shrimp processing facility in West Sacramento.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Rearing the snails - as well as other critically endangered invertebrates such as scarlet malachite beetles, ladybird spiders and tadpole shrimp - has become a family affair.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
In this place, there is no kitchen except for an outdoor grill serving up shrimp further along the beach.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
"That lent to the type of fish that were there, shrimps and the like. Then there was some sort of catastrophic event for the shark, which killed it, but it seemed to sink into mud."
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025
That with a bite of the eggplant, which is really soft and almost souplike, and then with one of the shrimps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025
"Pachystropheus probably lived the life of a modern-day otter, eating small fish or invertebrates such as shrimps," says Dr David Whiteside, another supervisor.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2024
Trillions of fish, shrimps, amphipods, jellyfish, and squid rise to feed, using the cover of darkness to hide from predators.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 13, 2024
“We ought to have some seafood for him, canned shrimps or something. Or maybe he isn’t hungry yet. I’ve read that penguins can go for a month without food.”
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
As a youngster, Jenkins shrimped with his father.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 22, 2021
“There’s no good price for shrimp, and sometimes there’s no catch,” said Robert Griffin, a retired Golden Meadow oil worker who shrimped in his youth.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 24, 2018
It is true, such things as these go for Wit so long as they continue in Latin; but what dismally shrimped things would they appear, if turned into English!
From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Professor Thomas Seccombe Arber
When ur was a little chile ur shrimped with 'n! an' when ur was a gert maiden ur walked out with 'n!
From The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 by A. R. (Augustus Robert) Buckland
Ms. Langlinais, who also owns a marketing business, grew up in a shrimping family in Biloxi, Miss., immersed in the elaborate world of Mardi Gras.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
Dan Ellison started shrimping when he was 12, bringing a change of clothes on the boat so he could make it to school after early-morning outings.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2023
People had been leaving Pointe-aux-Chenes for decades, driven out by frequent floods and the decline of the local shrimping industry, and enrollment at Pointe-aux-Chenes Elementary had fallen well below the district's target.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2023
It’s home to snowbirds, service industry workers and a large commercial shrimping industry.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2022
“Reggie died in Georgia. According to Coach Douglas, he’d found work on a shrimping boat. There was an accident out in the water. He went overboard.”
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
