tentacle
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There were costume changes and choreographed dance numbers, even an intro where a moving tentacle flailed halfway out of her mouth.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025
We cannot say the same with a straight face, without or without tentacle mouths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025
Her work includes creating a removable extra thumb and a tentacle arm.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2024
At about the size of a pinkie nail, the jellyfish species Cladonema can regenerate an amputated tentacle in two to three days -- but how?
From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2023
Jellies can sting long past their own death, long after a tentacle is detached from the rest of the body.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
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
“Poetry lingers, and its tentacles grip,” the author writes in an afterword.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
"I was diving in the Clyde and one of the instructors had to pull me out of the way of the tentacles as it was wafting above me," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Phishing scams are like an octopus: They have many sticky tentacles.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
It doesn’t matter if the current whips all around and sends my tentacles off in some random direction, my eyes are always right side up.
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
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