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The phrase "a cloud of ink" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a large, dark mass of ink, often in a metaphorical sense to convey a sense of confusion or overwhelming information. Example: "As the writer stared at the page, a cloud of ink seemed to envelop her thoughts, making it difficult to focus."
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A cloud of ink, and I flee.
They also produce a cloud of ink as a decoy to help them escape.
Robert Solow, who won a Nobel prize for economics, remarked that central bankers are "like squid: they emit a cloud of ink and move away".
In the video, what appears to be coral suddenly becomes an octopus, with an eye, and darts away in a cloud of ink.
Most famously, they can blast a cloud of ink to throw off predators, but even more impressive is the masterfully complex camouflage employed by several members of Cephalopoda (a class that also includes squid and cuttlefish).
A heptapod splits its own leg into a spindly, squishy starfish; it blasts a cloud of ink that smokes and curls like cream in iced coffee, and then resolves into an ornamented circle — their version of a sentence.
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In one thrilling instance, the figure is almost totally effaced in a cloud of gray ink on pink paper: a presentiment of abstraction.
Finally, he compared Republicans to a cuttlefish "that squirts out a cloud of black ink whenever its slumber is disturbed".
Whenever the brown sea hare is in a bind, it ejects a cloud of purplish-pink ink to confuse its predators, like the spiny lobster.
In Octopus under attack by a moray eel, the cloud of ink seems to paralyze for some time the eel's senses of sight and smell.
The animal on the right released the diffuse cloud of ink (top, right).
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