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tentacles

NOUN
appendage
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Its tentacles reached into the heart of the Albanian government, with top officials including an environment minister jailed for graft.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Morgan said he was swimming near Trefin Beach in Pembrokeshire when he spotted the tentacles in the water.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Little is known about the animals, including what they eat, how they use their tentacles and how they reproduce.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Phishing scams are like an octopus: They have many sticky tentacles.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

“No,” she shrieked, coiling a bandage around a circular, sucker-shaped bruise on her calf—an injury sustained wrestling the mirror tentacles.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles



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