as in manta rays
any of several extremely large rays
they saw a devilfish when they went scuba diving in the Caribbean, but it swam away quickly
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Aura Maldives will be located in Baa Atoll, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve known as one of the best places in the country to see manta rays.—
Jim Dobson,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026 -
The Butcher’s Feast is more than enough for a full meal, but there are other treasures, too, like a beef-noodle soup built on a spectacularly rich, slightly offal-ish broth made with marrow bones, with paper-thin slices of A5-Wagyu rib eye swimming in it like manta rays.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
24 May 2026
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Roberts doesn’t expect Ohtani to need X-rays on his hand, saying the pitch mostly hit the padding on his batting gloves.—
Maddie Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2026
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Rumfield, who got plunked in the right hand by Emmet Sheehan, had X-rays taken at Dodger Stadium.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
26 May 2026
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“Devilfishes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/devilfishes. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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