carapace
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It seems M has perfected the art of using candor as a carapace, so that the image of her authentic self recedes the more Cusk’s writer spends time with her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
"Turtle growth rates and sizes vary," says Cómbita-Romero, so the team looked at features like the thickness of its carapace and the spots where its ribs were knitting together into solid bone.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 7, 2023
It had stubby limbs and a flattened carapace, suggesting that—unlike modern sea turtles—this ancient reptile lived along shallow coastlines.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 22, 2023
Polished, urbane and preternaturally prepared, Cornwell’s sometimes mischievous demeanor forms a kind of shadow narrative, a fascinating carapace that Morris’s interrogatory arrows fail to fully pierce.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
In throwing it back, they set in motion an evolutionary process: If you are a crab and your carapace is ordinary, the humans will eat you.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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