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: any of numerous rays (as of the family Dasyatidae) with one or more large sharp barbed dorsal spines near the base of the whiplike tail capable of inflicting severe wounds
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The property has also curated three custom itineraries available to its guests focusing on exploring the island’s many beaches, visiting Harbour Island, just off the coast of Eleuthera, or venturing out to remote islands and sandbars, snorkeling, fishing, and swimming with turtles or stingrays.
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Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 10 July 2024
Some examples stick with Tynes, like how her cousin was the kind of dedicated friend who would carry someone down the beach after a run-in with a stingray, invite other sailors to his home for Thanksgiving — and remember to give out high-fives to his neighbors’ 5-year-old son.
—Adam Carlson, Peoplemag, 5 July 2024
Charlotte the stingray, whose mysterious pregnancy grabbed headlines earlier this year and earned her a legion of online fans, has died, according to the Aquarium & Shark Lab by Team ECCO, the facility where Charlotte lived.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2024
The Next Frontier in Synthetic Biology Researchers have built something pretty weird—an artificial stingray.
—JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
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Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 10 July 2024
Some examples stick with Tynes, like how her cousin was the kind of dedicated friend who would carry someone down the beach after a run-in with a stingray, invite other sailors to his home for Thanksgiving — and remember to give out high-fives to his neighbors’ 5-year-old son.
—Adam Carlson, Peoplemag, 5 July 2024
Charlotte the stingray, whose mysterious pregnancy grabbed headlines earlier this year and earned her a legion of online fans, has died, according to the Aquarium & Shark Lab by Team ECCO, the facility where Charlotte lived.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2024
The Next Frontier in Synthetic Biology Researchers have built something pretty weird—an artificial stingray.
—JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
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stingray
noun
sting·ray
ˈstiŋ-ˌrā 
: any of numerous rays that have one or more large sharp stinging spines near the base of the whiplike tail
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