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fins

noun

plural of fin, slang

as in ones

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Recent Examples of fins Our fish farm worked beautifully right up until the NewCoral molted, growing fins and fangs and one rocky fin, terrorizing the coastline and hunting the NewFish almost to NewExtinction. — Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025 The sharks are another story — their flesh is not well regarded and is often given away, while its fins are considered poor quality for the global shark fin trade. — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025

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Noun

Detroit automakers, and some foreign ones, have already been reintroducing V-8 engines.

— Robert Ferris, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
High-income countries recruit from lower-income ones, shifting shortages rather than solving them.

— Lynne S. Moronski, STAT, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of ones

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Saudi Arabia spends tens of billions of dollars on defense every year, but is struggling to protect key assets such as airports, refineries and pipelines from missiles and drones fired by Houthi militants from Yemen.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026
The standalone streaming service features tens of thousands of TV episodes from cable networks like HGTV, Food Network and TLC.

— Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of tens

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As a major bloc that has been able to apply pressure, the union has thwarted several efforts by Mamdani’s predecessors to ban the attraction, as hundreds of carriage operators make a living operating the buggies.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2026
The Paris prosecutor’s office opened an investigation on Monday into an overnight cyberattack on refrigeration systems at hundreds of French supermarkets.

— Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of hundreds

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Hardware demand Despite these concerns, the sector's hunger for chips doesn't seem to be letting up, as seen in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's record quarter.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026
But while Broadcom can profit from selling chips, the AI labs buying computing power must still find enough paying customers to cover the cost of developing and running their models.

— Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of chips

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The source of that money matters as federal law guarantees candidates lower broadcast rates for television advertising than super PACs, allowing Talarico's campaign dollars to go further in buying TV exposure than outside Republican groups.

— Luke Fountain, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
India is 鈥渋ncreasingly important for our capital,鈥� Al Muhairi said, citing its market size and 鈥渕assive infrastructure program鈥� that is driving tens of billions of dollars of investment into the world鈥檚 most populous country.

— semafor.com, semafor.com, 15 Oct. 2026

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