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fished

verb

past tense of fish

as in fumbled

to search for something blindly or uncertainly take a minute to fish for some change to drop in the donation box

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Recent Examples of fished Owner and chef Stefania Marchesini, who fished professionally herself for 11 years, pays a premium to local fishermen, especially for soft-shell crabs known in the local dialect as moeche. — ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026 Some officials argue that would let Iceland keep control of its waters, since no EU country has fished there for decades. — Reuters, NBC news, 30 Aug. 2026 Some Icelandic officials have said Iceland would therefore retain control of ⁠its waters, since no EU country has fished there for decades. — CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026 That’s a 40% discount on a rod that, by the retailer’s own assessment, has barely been fished. — William Jones, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2026 Many researchers were convinced that the group must also be unfaithful and fished around to find the relationship in Birman’s approach or Moody’s method. — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 24 July 2026 While Stan and Bud fished the shore, Ed and I sat in a canoe casting into the tail of the current. — Marc Terziev, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2026 Because the pond has been very fished. — Michael Schneider, Variety, 27 May 2026 Security agents fished VIPs from the crowd, among them Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and senior White House advisers Stephen Miller and Dan Scavino. — Calvin Woodward, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026

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The company, which offers credit cards used to make rent and mortgage payments, had fumbled a critical transition, leading to confusion and financial stress for its customers.

— Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 31 Aug. 2026
On his second drive, Tagovailoa fumbled the snap from center and the Dolphins recovered.

— Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of fumbled

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Extreme mountain climbing has never looked anything but miserable from the distance of a screening room, and The Other Side delivers mightily on all that scraping, straining, gasping toil.

— Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2026
Victor Munoz, the winger, looked set to sign from Osasuna in June, only for Liverpool to gazump Newcastle at the last moment.

— Chris Waugh, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026

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That’s the group of free agents who garner the most attention, players who have reached six years of service time or more.

— Evan Drellich, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2026
The companies’ interest in the Monarch data center shows how the feeding frenzy for compute has reached a new pitch as AI companies look to nail down capacity amid the AI buildout.

— J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 28 Aug. 2026

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