tentacles

Example Sentences

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Mr. Charles’s interest in alternatively abled people, or people who can do special things, that interest has long tentacles.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

Many of the fossils display unusual combinations of features, such as tentacles, stalks, attachment discs, and feeding structures that could be turned inside out.

From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026

A UK Border Force officer surveilled and investigated Chinese citizens in Britain as part of a "shadow policing operation" with its "tentacles" reaching from Hong Kong, a court has heard.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

Google, the core of Alphabet’s business, has its tentacles in various artificial-intelligence applications, and that breadth will be the primary narrative in the megacap internet trade this year, Raymond James argued.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

From up close, she saw that the alien creature’s tentacles were actually made of words, tightly packed together, looping lazily over each other.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon