tentacles

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Many of the fossils display unusual combinations of features, such as tentacles, stalks, attachment discs, and feeding structures that could be turned inside out.

From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026

A UK Border Force officer surveilled and investigated Chinese citizens in Britain as part of a "shadow policing operation" with its "tentacles" reaching from Hong Kong, a court has heard.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

Google, the core of Alphabet’s business, has its tentacles in various artificial-intelligence applications, and that breadth will be the primary narrative in the megacap internet trade this year, Raymond James argued.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

Although he stepped down as Oracle’s CEO in 2014, he remains its executive chairman and chief technology officer — and continues to be deeply involved in the company and its growing tentacles.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2025

And before I even know what I’m doing all of my tentacles are grabbing at the shirts, pulling them out of their perfectly folded squares, yanking them out and flinging them around the room.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden