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noun (2)

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Share [Findings] Juvenile Japanese eels can escape from the stomachs of dark sleepers by pushing their tails back through the fish’s esophagus and out its gills. Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025 For a few moments, the noise from the notorious Philadelphia crowd — explosive and energetic and packed to the gills in its finest all-weather gear — dulled. Jourdan Rodrigue, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025 Renters, stuffed to the gills, essentially pushed their chairs back from the Thanksgiving table and said enough. Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2025 Another research team at MIT used the gills of these creatures, which filter for plankton, to improve commercial water filtration systems. Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 31 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for gill

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“Gill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gill. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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