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plural gobies also goby
: any of numerous spiny-finned fishes (family Gobiidae) that usually have the pelvic fins united to form a ventral sucking disk
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Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 11 July 2024
This length was particularly small for earthworm gobies, again suggesting the fish belongs to a previously unidentified species.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 11 July 2024
Doc Louallen, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2024
The ideology behind this approach, to the extent that there was one, went by a particularly unsexy name: legalism.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024
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Noun
The discovery comes just weeks after another new goby species was identified nearby in a June 24 study, McClatchy News reported.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 11 July 2024
This length was particularly small for earthworm gobies, again suggesting the fish belongs to a previously unidentified species.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 11 July 2024
Verb
As weeks went by without any arrests in the case, a media frenzy began to build, fueled by relentless tabloid images of JonBenet participating in beauty pageants.
—Doc Louallen, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2024
The ideology behind this approach, to the extent that there was one, went by a particularly unsexy name: legalism.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Goby.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goby. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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goby
noun
go·by
ˈgō-bē 
plural gobies also goby
: any of numerous spiny-finned fishes that often have the pelvic fins united to form a sucking disk
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