tentacle
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I love thinking of a bag as a tentacle, and with this reimagining of Marakami’s Mr. DOB as a vibrant octopus, I’m ready to channel some Ursula energy.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025
There were costume changes and choreographed dance numbers, even an intro where a moving tentacle flailed halfway out of her mouth.
From Salon • Apr. 16, 2025
Her work includes creating a removable extra thumb and a tentacle arm.
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2024
"Together, resident stem cells and repair-specific proliferative cells allow rapid regeneration of the functional tentacle within a few days," Nakajima said, noting that jellyfish use their tentacles to hunt and feed.
From Science Daily • Dec. 22, 2023
I nosed out, in my childish games, every last shark-toothed chamber and hall, every black tentacle of my mother’s cave, and so came at last, adventure by adventure, to the pool of firesnakes.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
Vocabulary lists containing tentacle
This Week in Words: September 1 - 7, 2018
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The Thing About Jellyfish
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