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Medusa

[muh-doo-suh, -zuh, -dyoo-] / məˈdu sə, -zə, -ˈdju- /


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That role was cut short, however, by Prada's acquisition of the flashy luxury label famous for its Medusa logo, owned by Capri Holdings Limited.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

In the first “Furious” episode, she explains how Medusa, the snake-haired demon who turns men to stone, got that way.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026

When the monster emerges in the water tower, a moss-covered, faucet-dripping, steam-seeping laboratory punctuated by a screaming sculpture of Medusa, he’s as old as he is new.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025

Looking at Medusa, the hideous woman with snakes for hair, might turn the viewer to stone, but there’s power in offending the eye—or at least rejecting the pressure to be decorative.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2024

The class quieted down, but I knew that from now on, my nickname would be Medusa.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin

Wearing a toadstool headdress and a skirt embellished with Medusas, El Beh has one of the most striking looks — though the orange ram’s horns on Trebien Pollard are quite something, too.

From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2022

Bruitparif has installed fifty Medusas in the metropolitan area, and will add many more this summer.

From The New Yorker ● May 6, 2019

The band's final two songs are I Am The King and Medusas "which sounds like it's a Greek myth but is actually about jelly fish".

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2019

He wielded his clinical obligation like Perseus’s shield, in which a cavalcade of Medusas lost their stony power.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 4, 2015

All those silly speeches Aided away behind Hydras, Minotaurs, and Medusas.

From "Worth" by A. LaFaye


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