tentacle
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Our enterprising Gravedigger, a true woman of science, engineers a lizard elixir and regenerates the finger into a long tentacle that eventually demands a body.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026
Her work includes creating a removable extra thumb and a tentacle arm.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2024
"Together, resident stem cells and repair-specific proliferative cells allow rapid regeneration of the functional tentacle within a few days," Nakajima said, noting that jellyfish use their tentacles to hunt and feed.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2023
Each tentacle also contains rows of suckers to help the octopus maintain its grip.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2023
Its head was the size of a softball, and its one tentacle was less than two feet long.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
Its tentacles reached into the heart of the Albanian government, with top officials including an environment minister jailed for graft.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
"They are not actively stinging, it is just when anything touches their tentacles as they are moving through the water, regardless of what it is."
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Phishing scams are like an octopus: They have many sticky tentacles.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
“Iran and the militias have tentacles throughout the economy,” said Victoria Taylor, who oversaw Iraq policy at the Biden administration State Department and is now at the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
From up close, she saw that the alien creature’s tentacles were actually made of words, tightly packed together, looping lazily over each other.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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