tentacled

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Citigroup, criticized for years for being too multi-tentacled, has already sold off several businesses over the past several months.

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  • In your mind you see a man with a white Merlin beard and long lithe fingers that spark magic against the keyboard, or perhaps a plump woman with generous breasts and hair so long it spreads about the room, entwining everything like the many-tentacled spell of a witch. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 02 - February 2000
  • It waved its three-tentacled hand at the wall of the waiting room, and the wall slid open. —  Asimov'sSF,July2008
  • They wore the form of squid; many-tentacled and big-eyed, com­municating by coded ripples of bioluminescent frills along their streamlined flanks. —  Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
  • Maybe black-tentacled monsters were reserved for people with bad cash. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#214
  • There was sun and space and enormous multi-tentacled creatures. —  ARTEMIS FOWL is a child prodigy from Ireland who has dedicated his brilliant mind to criminal activities
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/ˈtɛntəkld/
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