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excrescence

[ik-skres-uhns] / ɪkˈskrɛs əns /


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To press a button and see your own excrescence appear in the preordained format, minted, can feel like a kind of magic.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 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

An excrescence on a horse's frush or frog.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah




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