barnacle
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“We always joke that ever since then, EIT has been a barnacle on the side of the Meow Wolf ship, just hanging on but also occasionally hopping in to contribute,” Maier says.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
A Ram truck with a yellow barnacle on its windshield, a handful of mopeds under rain covers, and a lot of empty parking spaces.
From Slate • Apr. 28, 2025
At first, Figgener and the other scientists onboard speculated that the object could be a barnacle or a tube worm.
From National Geographic • Dec. 12, 2023
Researchers wanted to know how this barnacle species might adapt their defences in response to tropicalisation.
From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2023
On the second day of May, as she came out on Wethersfield landing, a trim little ketch was already tied up, fresh-painted, with clean white canvas and not a barnacle on its hull.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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