tentacle
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"The advice is not to touch them and if you get a bit of tentacle on your skin flick it off with a stick and wash in warm water to neutralise," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Hardware has been a tentacle of my personal style code since, infiltrating every part of my closet, home and life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
There were costume changes and choreographed dance numbers, even an intro where a moving tentacle flailed halfway out of her mouth.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025
"Repair-specific proliferative cells mainly contribute to the epithelium -- the thin outer layer -- of the newly formed tentacle."
From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2023
Her tentacle arms were a part of the sucking, obsequious water.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
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
“Poetry lingers, and its tentacles grip,” the author writes in an afterword.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
"They are not actively stinging, it is just when anything touches their tentacles as they are moving through the water, regardless of what it is."
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Phishing scams are like an octopus: They have many sticky tentacles.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
The lifeguard was the one who saved him, curling three tentacles around Daniel to draw him away from a bad-tempered eel who had started shouting about “crazy kids” on his lawn.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
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