barnacle
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“We always joke that ever since then, EIT has been a barnacle on the side of the Meow Wolf ship, just hanging on but also occasionally hopping in to contribute,” Maier says.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
A Ram truck with a yellow barnacle on its windshield, a handful of mopeds under rain covers, and a lot of empty parking spaces.
From Slate • Apr. 28, 2025
In the UK, rising sea temperatures are having an impact, with a number of creatures having vanished completely from coastal locations - some barnacle species, for example.
From BBC • May 7, 2024
The team also used published research and field surveys to find out how barnacle populations overlap with the range expansion of warm-water predatory sea snails.
From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2023
On the second day of May, as she came out on Wethersfield landing, a trim little ketch was already tied up, fresh-painted, with clean white canvas and not a barnacle on its hull.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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