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excrescence

[ik-skres-uhns] / ɪkˈskrɛs əns /


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“Do you take this excrescence to be your husband?”

From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2020

Things didn't improve from there, with The Observer calling it "shameless excrescence" in 2017.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2018

Its head is a sculptural confection of broken cycles, its rear a writhing excrescence of black rubber loops.

From Economist • Oct. 26, 2017

This ravishing excrescence reminded me of a shipwreck-themed Alexander McQueen show from 2002, which opened with a video of a drowning girl.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 21, 2016

It is a part of the very fiber of her national being, and not an excrescence, as is our standing army.

From Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace by Maxwell, George Hebard




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