mermaid
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Cenci owns a company that sells mermaid clip-on hair extensions and flew in from New Jersey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
Of course, some of what he exhibited for his patrons had nothing to do with the real world—like his infamous Fiji mermaid, purportedly half monkey, half fish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026
It is amusing to see young Reubens in drag as a kid at Halloween, or playing a Cher-inspired mermaid in a video he made while at college.
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2025
In 2018, Spectrum agreed a deal with Disney for a Little Mermaid collection inspired by mermaid princess Ariel.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2024
Preferable to that of the men who called her mermaid and the women who swept up her footprints or put mirrors on her door.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
"Poor mermaids, in tales they're always being kidnapped or dragged somewhere or shot - they're treated really terribly, they're not usually happy stories," said Pratchett.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2023
Fish-tailed mermaids and Barbie dolls are free from ticking biological and career clocks – although they imagine or play at the things determined by those clocks, too.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2023
Not only that, Ruby learns that the kraken are warriors who protect the sea from their rivals, such as the vain and power-hungry mermaids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
Mythical hybrid beasts such as mermaids, centaurs and chimeras testify to our enduring fascination with the plasticity of biological form: the idea that natural organisms can mutate or be reconfigured.
From Scientific American ● May 31, 2023
We stay in the sea for hours pretending we are mermaids, and when we finally come out, our skin is all wrinkly.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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