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Nor does it change her right to privacy — the right we all share to be free of some octopus database run by the federal government without transparency or trust.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Among the products targeted by Canada are U.S. steel, aluminum, motorcycles, washers and dryers, chain saws, processed cheese, clams and frozen octopus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Phishing scams are like an octopus: They have many sticky tentacles.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

Increasing numbers of octopus may offer a new market for fishermen, for example, but can hit populations of crabs, lobster, scallops and other shellfish on which they prey.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

Matt Hubbard raises his hand and asks something, but it’s like I’m underwater, and not in an octopus sort of way.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden

That outer shell is built largely from chitin, a tough natural material also found in fungal cell walls, fish scales, and the beaks of squids and octopi.

From Science Daily ● May 9, 2026

Jewish people were sometimes depicted as octopi in Nazi posters during World War Two.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2024

“Some people were turned off by the violence or the octopi scene and felt ‘Oldboy’ was too much of a genre film for competition,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2023

As another example, the team, in partnership with the Department of Natural Resources is experimenting with octopots — small ceramic pot homes that may attract octopi, the kelp crab’s natural predator.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

Then you go through the backyard to a covered shed on piles over the ocean and here are the tanks for the larger animals, the sharks and rays and octopi, each in their concrete tanks.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

It’s not clear when the trafficked animals might join the roughly 12,000 turtles, frogs, octopuses, penguins, sharks and other sea creatures currently on public display.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Perhaps the most impressive discoveries are animal “cities,” including two assemblies of octopuses, dubbed Octopolis and Octlantis, found off the east coast of Australia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Even so, the study adds another remarkable skill to the growing list of abilities that make octopuses some of the most fascinating animals in the ocean.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026

A new study published in Current Biology found that octopuses can learn to use mirrors to locate food hidden from direct view, demonstrating sophisticated spatial thinking.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026

Though it’s etymologically illegitimate, octopi is now so common that dictionaries list it as a second choice after octopuses.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner