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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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The novel was inspired by both his experience as a whaler and the Essex tragedy.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
8 Jan. 2025
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Fin whales are hunted by commercial whalers, which has dwindled their population, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.—
Paloma Chavez,
Sacramento Bee,
6 Jan. 2025
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To make the process of engaging a bank easier for residents, PNC has a minority business advocate program that helps bankers better understand their clients’ cultural and financial challenges in doing business.—
Michael Butler,
Miami Herald,
18 Jan. 2025
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During this time, the following things need to be addressed: • External Team: Assemble the right team of external advisors, including bankers, lawyers, auditors, investor relations experts and other advisors.—
Cody Slach,
Forbes,
14 Jan. 2025
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Rose’s father, Kommer, is among the few billionaires in the field, thanks to his idea of introducing standardization and modular manufacturing from the car industry to building workboats, which shorten delivery times and reduce production costs.—
Zinnia Lee,
Forbes,
19 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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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 30 Jan. 2025.
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