tentacles

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Here you might spy a lion’s mane jellyfish, whose stinging tentacles have been known to grow more than 100 feet, longer than the length of a basketball court.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Jellyfish galaxies get their name from the long, flowing streams of gas that stretch out behind them, resembling tentacles.

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026

Google, the core of Alphabet’s business, has its tentacles in various artificial-intelligence applications, and that breadth will be the primary narrative in the megacap internet trade this year, Raymond James argued.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

Although he stepped down as Oracle’s CEO in 2014, he remains its executive chairman and chief technology officer — and continues to be deeply involved in the company and its growing tentacles.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2025

He couldn’t guess what time it was because Skardebek had fallen asleep plastered to his face, her tentacles clamped over his eyes, nose, and mouth.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin