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mermaid

[mur-meyd] / ˈmɜrˌmeɪd /






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While looking over the proofs for her latest cookbook, she picked up a marker and drew a mermaid.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

An azure booth is flanked by an abstracted mermaid sculpture, and elsewhere howling wolves are engraved into the bar tops.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 26, 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

I pulled out one that was covered in different types of native saltwater fish and one that had an old Victorian drawing of a mermaid.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

"But this time with the iconic, much-loved characters of Captain Hook and Peter Pan, not to mention, fairies, pirates and mermaids."

From BBC Sep. 9, 2025

Karen Bagnard’s late-1940s stucco home was incinerated — along with a lifetime of artwork she created, which featured mermaids and other fantastical beings — by the Eaton fire.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 28, 2025

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

There's also aspiring mermaids, who struggle to plant their foot in the industry and, instead, fuel their passion via small gigs that offer measly compensation.

From Salon May 28, 2023

They were kind of like mermaids, and their song lured seamen to crash their ships into the rocks.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool




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