excrescence
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To press a button and see your own excrescence appear in the preordained format, minted, can feel like a kind of magic.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2020
Things didn't improve from there, with The Observer calling it "shameless excrescence" in 2017.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2018
Its head is a sculptural confection of broken cycles, its rear a writhing excrescence of black rubber loops.
From Economist ● Oct. 26, 2017
This ravishing excrescence reminded me of a shipwreck-themed Alexander McQueen show from 2002, which opened with a video of a drowning girl.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 21, 2016
Proud′-flesh, a growth or excrescence of flesh in a wound.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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