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Discover LudwigThe phrase "tentacles" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in various contexts, often metaphorically, to describe something that has far-reaching influence or control, similar to how tentacles extend from a creature. Example: "The corporation's tentacles reached into every aspect of the community, influencing local politics and economy."
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tentacles
noun
Plural of tentacle
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Millions of kwacha found in a civil servant's car boot unravelled a corruption web with tentacles deep inside the president's office.
They use their stinging tentacles to capture our self-confidence and the belief we have a voice worth listening to.
It depicts a giant alien-black-woman coming down from the sky and inflating the buttocks of three white women, via the anus, with tentacles produced from her mouth.
In the atmospheric Pitfall (1948), solid married man Dick Powell is caught in the tentacles of fashion model Scott, even though he is aware that she's dangerous.
SFF is in the grip of its own culture war, with a group of authors suggesting that the recent success of female and non-white writers is proof that political correctness has spread its tentacles so far that it is now ruining stories that include actual tentacles.
To survive, Clause and Lucas reach out to the tentacles of evil and cruelty.
2 Remove the tentacles from the head by cutting them off just in front of the eyes.
Discard the head and separate the tentacles if large.
It pounced up on the magazine in question, eager to read tales of drugged madness, to see photographs of The Global Aggregate Of Fairytale Young Womanhood suffering a scrumpy and microdot-fuelled freakout while watching the Ozric Tentacles and to hear of her announcing her decision to quit the world of haute-couture modelling in order to live in a converted ambulance with a man called Seaweed.
3 Squeeze out the beak-like mouth from the centre of the tentacles and discard it.
For as long as structural inequalities persist, we cannot overlook how far the tentacles of history might reach into the present.
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