mermaid
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While looking over the proofs for her latest cookbook, she picked up a marker and drew a mermaid.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
An azure booth is flanked by an abstracted mermaid sculpture, and elsewhere howling wolves are engraved into the bar tops.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
Of course, some of what he exhibited for his patrons had nothing to do with the real world—like his infamous Fiji mermaid, purportedly half monkey, half fish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026
It is amusing to see young Reubens in drag as a kid at Halloween, or playing a Cher-inspired mermaid in a video he made while at college.
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2025
Greenleigh was a mermaid who became Harriet’s best friend for the rest of the series.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
Have warm feelings toward Copenhagen’s favorite son, Hans Christian Andersen, and his little tales about lovelorn mermaids and ugly ducklings?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2025
What if someone told you mermaids were real?
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2024
"The Little Mermaid" is explicit about how humans hurt the ecosystem, a critique made by Black mermaids in older folk tales and recent literature inspired by them.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2023
Mythical hybrid beasts such as mermaids, centaurs and chimeras testify to our enduring fascination with the plasticity of biological form: the idea that natural organisms can mutate or be reconfigured.
From Scientific American ● May 31, 2023
The mermaids of the lagoon in Peter Pan and the enchanted island of Avalon from the legends of King Arthur.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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