limpet
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Norris clung to Verstappen like a limpet and then overtook him with imperious ease before the first pit stops, cruising off into the middle distance thereafter.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2024
First he had to pry off an interloper: a limpet, a coin-size, hat-shaped snail that normally clings tenaciously to tidal zone rocks but had taken up residence on the gray epoxy seal protecting the sensor.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 1, 2023
Navy blamed Iran for a series of limpet mine attacks on vessels that damaged tankers.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 3, 2021
Other information appears to confirm that the object was an unexploded limpet mine.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2019
Her fevered mind fastened like a limpet onto the notion that Estha was somehow responsible for Sophie Mol’s death.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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