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protoplasm

[proh-tuh-plaz-uhm] / ˈproʊ təˌplæz əm /




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He was the first to have shape-shifting powers, which he gained after encountering a mysterious radioactive pool of protoplasm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

In Darwin’s day scientists could assume that cells contained only a kind of undifferentiated protoplasm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

“The thought was mesmerizing that that brain represented the most complex mass of protoplasm on this earth and, perhaps, in our galaxy.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2017

From there it wasn’t such a leap to guess that protoplasm might, in certain extraordinary moments, coalesce and be projected from the body.

From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2016

She probably thinks I'm turning myself into a gob of protoplasm or something.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements


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