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Recent Examples of shrimper
For a shrimper already operating on slim margins, that's not just an inconvenience.
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Drew Hawkins,
NPR,
26 May 2026
Gulf Coast shrimpers have been pummeled in recent years by natural and man-made disasters, as well as rising fuel costs.
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Emily Cochrane,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
Southern shrimpers face multiple challenges, including rising costs and cheaper foreign imports.
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Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
24 Mar. 2025
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Drew Hawkins,
NPR,
26 May 2026
Gulf Coast shrimpers have been pummeled in recent years by natural and man-made disasters, as well as rising fuel costs.
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Emily Cochrane,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
Southern shrimpers face multiple challenges, including rising costs and cheaper foreign imports.
—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
24 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shrimper
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As the early morning breeze tickles the top of the Santa Monica Bay, three scientists pack into a small whaler boat and push out to sea in pursuit of great white sharks.
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Species include blue sharks, bull sharks, Caribbean reef sharks, bronze whaler sharsk, dusky sharks, hammerheads, tigers and spinner sharks.
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While a number of groups, including Tsai, have invested multiple times in PLL, Rabil said that with each funding round the group typically sought a leading role from a new banker.
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Aymen Sifour, a banker who lives in Montreal, flew into town with his sister and parents.
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One day later, another incident occurred in the evening involving a whaleboat that caught fire and capsized near the province’s Lukolela territory, AP, Al Jazeera and Sky News said, citing Congo’s humanitarian affairs ministry.
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This kind of inclusivity would explain Glenn Close‘s appearance — as a visiting literary scholar — at just the right moment, as well as Penélope Cruz’s showstopping cameo as Nené, a singer-slash-hooker who schools Sebastián on the then-nascent form of the modern transgender movement.
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Bemis, sold by her family in China and sent to America, worked as a domestic, not as a hooker.
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On Saturday, Bretal and Vega boarded a scalloper and embarked on a fishing trip that took a horrifying turn when their vessel apparently capsized and sank Sunday about 28 miles off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, according to the US Coast Guard.
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The four men on the scalloper, which had left from New Bedford, Massachusetts, did not appear to be wearing life jackets, Noel said.
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This group staged a coup d’état, taking Michael Bates captive for a number of days before putting him aboard a fishing trawler bound for the Netherlands.
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Five injured sailors were rescued by another trawler, the Burak Kaya, but one died on the way back to Turkey.
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After strikes on ships and the halt of ferry operations, Russia now depends solely on narrow land and bridge corridors.
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While taking the ferry to Liberty Island, Muir spoke to Captain Hamilton Clancy, who grew up in the shadow of the statue as his grandfather used to be the superintendent of Liberty Island.
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The ships use purse seiner nets and demersal trawlers, destroying the coral underneath and, consequently, the habitat for fish.
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Take a scenic cruise along Harbor Drive, where tuna seiners once tied up.
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“Shrimper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shrimper. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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