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Medusa

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


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Its bronze door bears a Medusa head, her open mouth turned into a letter slot.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 30, 2026

Only much later would I realize that it wasn’t so much a smorgasbord of vendors as it was the Gorgon Medusa: When one head is removed, more sprout in its place.

From Slate Jan. 13, 2026

Debi Mazar pops in as a good Medusa, with a scarf tied around her snake hair.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2024

Several people are believed to be trapped at the site of the Medusa Beach Club, a beachside restaurant on Cartago Street in Palma de Majorca.

From BBC May 23, 2024

It was silver and bronze, with the monstrous face of Medusa protruding from the center.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

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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