centipede
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Since replacing windows can cost enough arms and legs to make a human centipede, it’s worth looking into adding interior insulating layers to your existing windows.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Machado notes that in arthropods, a group that includes the centipede, maternal care is associated with rough conditions.
From Salon • May 11, 2025
The museum’s website lists Prendini as the curator of its spider, scorpion, centipede and millipede collections.
From Seattle Times • May 13, 2024
It was a centipede, which is venomous, she and other evacuees in the shelter told me.
From BBC • Aug. 11, 2023
Now whenever trouble is coming, Tatica feels a glimmer of the old burning in the centipede trail on her belly.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Vocabulary lists containing centipede
Florida's B.E.S.T. Roots: cent
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cent (hundred), mill (thousand)
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ped, pod (foot)
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