protrude
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Boxes labelled with western logos like New Balance and Clarks protrude from this shop's packed shelves.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026
Their backs are also mirrored, and hefty steel counterweights are holding up the semicircular tubes that protrude out front.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2024
Importantly, it was able to reveal the features where many synapses dwell: the spines that protrude along the vine-like processes, or dendrites, that grow out of the neuron cell body.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2024
His chin is pitched forward, his ears protrude and his brow is furrowed over glinting black eyes.
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2023
My stomach and feet swell as my bones protrude everywhere else.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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