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Recent Examples of shrimper
So far, Alabama and Louisiana are leading the charge to stamp out the misrepresentation and protect the bottom line of local shrimpers.
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Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2025
According to Facebook posts made about the search and rescue attempt, the Coast Guard searched throughout the night between November 30 and December 1.
Per Alabama TV station WKRG reporting, Wooley was a father of four and is a seasoned fisherman and shrimper.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
In March of 2021, the month independent shrimper Derek Bateman was first able to get through to someone in his state's unemployment office, the average wait time for an appeal was 263 days.
—Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2024
But rather than use this long period of protection to invest in modernization, U.S. shrimpers opted to extort payments from foreign producers in exchange for their suspension of proceedings that might have resulted in higher duties.
—Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2025
According to Facebook posts made about the search and rescue attempt, the Coast Guard searched throughout the night between November 30 and December 1.
Per Alabama TV station WKRG reporting, Wooley was a father of four and is a seasoned fisherman and shrimper.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
In March of 2021, the month independent shrimper Derek Bateman was first able to get through to someone in his state's unemployment office, the average wait time for an appeal was 263 days.
—Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2024
But rather than use this long period of protection to invest in modernization, U.S. shrimpers opted to extort payments from foreign producers in exchange for their suspension of proceedings that might have resulted in higher duties.
—Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shrimper
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The African Baptist Society in Nantucket, for example, was built by Black whalers who had achieved financial independence through their trade.—
Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick,
The Conversation,
4 Apr. 2025
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But their populations plummeted in the 18th and 19th centuries, as buccaneers and whalers nabbed tortoises for meat and oil.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Apr. 2025
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Some owners bypass private equity altogether, choosing instead to work with sports investment bankers like Salvatore Galatioto, who connect them with wealthy individuals or limited partners willing to pay a premium for exclusivity and less control.—
Darren Geeter,
CNBC,
4 Apr. 2025
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Carney, a former central banker with deep international credentials, has quickly positioned himself as the adult in the room.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 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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In Robert Brill’s set, the stage is shaped like a half-pipe with rungs, so that cast members scramble, pitch, tumble, and row flimsy whaleboats over massive waves.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
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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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Strip clubs, booze, hookers, blow, the whole nine yards.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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This is how an institution fractures, a culture declines, and Hollywood’s love for hookers and thieves degrades itself.—
Armond White,
National Review,
5 Mar. 2025
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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 22 Apr. 2025.
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