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- noun Plural form of
mantis .
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Examples
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I see human figures dancing like burning insects, like obscene praying mantises sputtering and bursting against a fiery red background of total destruction.
Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality Hal Duncan 2009
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The remains of two praying mantises were also found.
Prehistoric creatures discovered in huge Indian amber haul Ian Sample 2010
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But thanks to inane new Italian research, we now know that the real danger lies in images of women that resemble anything other than human praying mantises.
Leslie Goldman: The Skinny Model Diet Leslie Goldman 2011
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I suggest they each go out and preach directly to lions and tigers and bears and ... oh, my ... don't forget the wolves and praying mantises.
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I see human figures dancing like burning insects, like obscene praying mantises sputtering and bursting against a fiery red background of total destruction.
Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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In 3-D, Dolby 0.5 and 24 MP; on furious faces and hateful placards, in frustrated screams plus shallow stentorian hate mongers/hucksters/rainmakers/preying mantises up close and personal.
Jane-Howard Hammerstein: "You Can't Handle the Truth" ... Col. Jessup (a/k/a Jack Nicholson) Jane-Howard Hammerstein 2010
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But thanks to inane new Italian research, we now know that the real danger lies in images of women that resemble anything other than human praying mantises.
Leslie Goldman: The Skinny Model Diet Leslie Goldman 2011
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But thanks to inane new Italian research, we now know that the real danger lies in images of women that resemble anything other than human praying mantises.
Leslie Goldman: The Skinny Model Diet Leslie Goldman 2011
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I suggest they each go out and preach directly to lions and tigers and bears and ... oh, my ... don't forget the wolves and praying mantises.
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In the past few years, he has folded a flying katydid and two praying mantises mating.
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