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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 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 The falls are named after the Shoshone (or Shoshoni), a Native American tribe who lived in the area and fished on the Snake River. — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 26 Apr. 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 Eriksson Ek immediately fished the milestone puck out of the back of the net. — Michael Russo, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026 The story goes back to 1913 when Sen̓áḵw was a coastal village where Squamish people hunted and fished. — Alex Mayyasi, NPR, 27 Mar. 2026

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And Cam Skattebo fumbled at the end of a long run when Layne punched the ball out and corner Korie Black recovered.

— Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2026
Omar Brown hauled in an interception but fumbled, ball was recovered by Anthony Hankerson.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 3 Aug. 2026

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Fire danger continues in the Pacific Northwest Saturday as flame-fueling winds reached their strongest point in days on Friday, challenging fire crews battling to keep destructive blazes from spreading in Spokane, Washington, and across the region.

— Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
Somebody reached into the machinery that treats drinking water in a dozen states, in real towns, while the rest of us argued about model releases.

— Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026

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