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Recent Examples of shrimper
Despite the menu’s evolution, 99% of the ingredients remain local, honoring the bounty of shrimpers, oyster fishermen, crabbers, and farmers who define Southern Louisiana cuisine.
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Christine Chitnis, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2024
In the past, shrimpers could expect the crustaceans to grow throughout the spring season, which starts in May in Louisiana waters and generally runs through July.
—Delaney Dryfoos, Journal Sentinel, 4 July 2024
The question is how shrimpers will adapt and innovate to change with the times.
—Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2024
It's idled many of this state's roughly 300 shrimpers.
—Mark Strassmann, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2024
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Christine Chitnis, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2024
In the past, shrimpers could expect the crustaceans to grow throughout the spring season, which starts in May in Louisiana waters and generally runs through July.
—Delaney Dryfoos, Journal Sentinel, 4 July 2024
The question is how shrimpers will adapt and innovate to change with the times.
—Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2024
It's idled many of this state's roughly 300 shrimpers.
—Mark Strassmann, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shrimper
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But based on the financial success of its previous voyages in search of sperm oil—a high-quality lighting oil derived from the spermaceti organ in the head of the sperm whale—it was considered a desirable, even lucky, ship by local whalers.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
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Of the 20 or 21 whalers who left Nantucket on the Essex, only eight survived.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
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She was tried alongside 85 others, including former central bankers and government officials, as well as previous SCB executives.Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024
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DealBook Summit in Manhattan Wednesday, the central banker said Bitcoin is a speculative asset like gold, rather than something comparable to a currency.Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 4 Dec. 2024
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With little overt military value, Australia’s cheap-but-robust commercial workboats are subject to fierce debate.Craig Hooper, Forbes, 3 May 2023
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In the Black Sea, trading an old workboat or other hulk for even a mere mission-kill on a Russian combatant is eminently worthwhile.Craig Hooper, Forbes, 8 June 2022
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On July 20, 1775, Major Joseph Vose and sixty Continental soldiers landed on Little Brewster in nimble whaleboats.Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
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When a prime specimen was chosen, the men set off in a whaleboat rowed by a crew.Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022
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Sure, they’re meant to be funny, but Tomlin inhabits each of them — from Trudy the homeless woman to Brandy and Tina, hookers tired of being interviewed by intellectuals — with affection and empathy alike.Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Dec. 2024
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These were strippers, hookers, actresses, and showgirls, all of them with knock-out bodies.Cher, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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The upshot will be a mid-sized load-lugger that will hammers to 62mph in 3.6 seconds and from zero to 124mph in only 12.9 seconds, so the Europeans had better pack that luggage in snugly.Michael Taylor, Forbes, 22 June 2022
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The wooden boats competed in skiff, workboat, lugger, trawler, runabout, sailboat and cruiser classes.Ann Benoit, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
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Snooks Moore comes from a long line of commercial Cook Inlet fishers and is herself a sixth-generation gillnetter.Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2022
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The price tag on working gillnetters can be as low as ten grand for an out-of-repair fiberglass Rawson or as much as $400,000 for a fancy new aluminum drift boat with full refrigeration.John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2018
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The vessel has been identified as the F/V Leonardo, a scalloper homeported in New Bedford.BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2019
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David Frulla, a lawyer who represents the Fisheries Survival Fund, said his scalloper clients would still consider this large section of water to be closed off to them under the new plan, for safety reasons.BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2019
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“Shrimper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shrimper. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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