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excrescence

[ik-skres-uhns] / ɪkˈskrɛs əns /


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The ceiling was unbreached, the man said, and added, a little starchily, that the excrescence clearly was what it appeared to be.

From Washington Post Jul. 28, 2021

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 Jan. 29, 2020

Its head is a sculptural confection of broken cycles, its rear a writhing excrescence of black rubber loops.

From Economist Oct. 26, 2017

Carnos′ity, a fleshy excrescence growing in and obstructing any part of the body.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various




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