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fish for

Search for something, as in I've fished for it in all the drawers . [First half of 1700s]
Try to obtain something through artifice or indirectly. For example, He was always fishing for compliments , or, as William Makepeace Thackeray put it in Vanity Fair (1848): “The first woman who fishes for him, hooks him.” [Mid-1500s]

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The shutdown of fishing has taken a toll not only on the commercial fishing fleet but also on operators of charter fishing boats who were unable to fish for salmon in 2023 and 2024.

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"I was half way through breading fish for tea, it ran through the three bowls which I had to throw away," Donna said.

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For decades it has been illegal to fish for, catch, or keep any species of abalone in California — except for some permitted harvesting of red abalone north of San Francisco during designated periods.

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You’ll make two different salsas and tortillas and even fish for your trout on their on-site fish farm.

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"I went to the market today to buy frozen fish for the first time," Asmaa says.

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fishfly fish fork

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