protoplasm
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He was the first to have shape-shifting powers, which he gained after encountering a mysterious radioactive pool of protoplasm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
From there it wasn’t such a leap to guess that protoplasm might, in certain extraordinary moments, coalesce and be projected from the body.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2016
Intensities this great can damage individual cells, variously causing their protoplasm to stream inside them, altering their permeability, or rupturing their walls through cavitation.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
But the story of how living protoplasm emerged from lifeless matter may also help explain something darker: the origin of cancer.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2015
She probably thinks I'm turning myself into a gob of protoplasm or something.
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
