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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.
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Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
24 May 2026
Travelers also visit the nearby Nusa islands for quieter beaches, snorkeling and swimming with manta rays.
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Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
21 May 2026
From July to October, spot whale sharks and manta rays flocking by the hundreds, or save your trip for November through April to enjoy its dry season, with minimal rainfall, abundant sunshine (eight hours of sun per days’ worth), and high visibility for divers.
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Skyli Alvarez,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 May 2026
Discovery can help scientists better understand animal relationships Yeager said that the remora-manta ray relationship is a relatively new scientific debate but represents a broader shift in the way scientists are thinking about how animals interact in nature.
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James Powel,
USA Today,
14 May 2026
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Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
24 May 2026
Travelers also visit the nearby Nusa islands for quieter beaches, snorkeling and swimming with manta rays.
—
Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
21 May 2026
From July to October, spot whale sharks and manta rays flocking by the hundreds, or save your trip for November through April to enjoy its dry season, with minimal rainfall, abundant sunshine (eight hours of sun per days’ worth), and high visibility for divers.
—
Skyli Alvarez,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 May 2026
Discovery can help scientists better understand animal relationships Yeager said that the remora-manta ray relationship is a relatively new scientific debate but represents a broader shift in the way scientists are thinking about how animals interact in nature.
—
James Powel,
USA Today,
14 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for manta ray
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Above, rays of light radiate in high relief and sunburst guilloche is visible beneath the vivid hot enamel.
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The Food and Drug Administration has granted breakthrough designation to two devices that use generative AI to interpret chest X-rays and draft the radiology reports typically written by human radiologists.
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Among certain species of anglerfish, like those in the sea devil (Ceratiidae) family, males are little more than sperm sacs with nostrils.
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The resident Manta Trust team has catalogued 150 individual rays and uses the world's first underwater contactless ultrasound scanner to check on pregnant mantas, while the Olive Ridley Project leads turtle research across Laamu Atoll.
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Watching a documentary about mantas, reef sharks, or this area is one thing.
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“Manta ray.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manta%20ray. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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