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
At about the size of a pinkie nail, the jellyfish species Cladonema can regenerate an amputated tentacle in two to three days -- but how?
From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2023
They both stood and watched it floating there for a moment, before a large tentacle rose out of the water and scooped it beneath the surface.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
The tiny snail also has a cone-shaped, nearly transparent shell, a delicate body without pigmentation, and long, slender tentacles.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
Its tentacles reached into the heart of the Albanian government, with top officials including an environment minister jailed for graft.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Little is known about the animals, including what they eat, how they use their tentacles and how they reproduce.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
“Poetry lingers, and its tentacles grip,” the author writes in an afterword.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Nearby, in a different tank, I looked at jellies whose tentacles swirled the way wisps of a girl’s hair might if she floated underwater.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
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