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Recent Examples of shrimper
The question is how shrimpers will adapt and innovate to change with the times.
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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
At stake is the livelihood of Mr. Jordan and shrimpers like him nationwide.
—Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2024
Palacios, Texas: Vietnamese refugees in the small town overcame war trauma, language barriers and prejudice to make it as shrimpers.
—Soumya Karlamangla Sinna Nasseri, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
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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
At stake is the livelihood of Mr. Jordan and shrimpers like him nationwide.
—Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2024
Palacios, Texas: Vietnamese refugees in the small town overcame war trauma, language barriers and prejudice to make it as shrimpers.
—Soumya Karlamangla Sinna Nasseri, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shrimper
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The cast of Swept Away, the about-to-open Broadway musical that follows four whalers on an odyssey of survival and salvation, are a tight crew.Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2024
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In Nauru's history, it has been used as a supply shop for European whalers, according to CIA.gov.Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 1 Oct. 2024
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The uprising began with peaceful demonstrations against employment quotas for regime loyalists, but a heavy-handed crackdown ignited a powderkeg of rage against inequality and political repression that brought tens of thousands of mothers and daughters, bankers and beggars, united onto the street.Charlie Campbell, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024
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French Hill Hill — the current vice chair on the panel and chair of the Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion — is a former banker, Senate Banking Committee staffer and former executive secretary to the President's Economic Policy Council in 1991.Juliegrace Brufke, Axios, 20 Nov. 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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These were strippers, hookers, actresses, and showgirls, all of them with knock-out bodies.Cher, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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Those bank documents helped federal prosecutors bring a criminal case in California about unpaid taxes on cash Biden used to fund drugs and hookers.Philip Elliott, TIME, 7 Sep. 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 28 Nov. 2024.
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