tentacle
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Hardware has been a tentacle of my personal style code since, infiltrating every part of my closet, home and life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
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
"Repair-specific proliferative cells mainly contribute to the epithelium -- the thin outer layer -- of the newly formed tentacle."
From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2023
Brendan reaches up a skinny octopus tentacle and casually drops the ball through the hoop.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
"I was diving in the Clyde and one of the instructors had to pull me out of the way of the tentacles as it was wafting above me," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Phishing scams are like an octopus: They have many sticky tentacles.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
“Iran and the militias have tentacles throughout the economy,” said Victoria Taylor, who oversaw Iraq policy at the Biden administration State Department and is now at the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Along with his Unification Church, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon built a political propaganda empire, which had tentacles all over Washington, D.C., at one time.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
He’d gotten so many blisters, his fingers looked like tentacles.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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