as in protruding
to extend outward beyond a usual point
his lower lip pooched out in disappointment
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And while certainly shaken up, the driver and passenger (also test dummies in this case) likely could have walked away without being struck by shattered glass or a protruding antler.
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Features such as surface roughness and protruding fibers create more sites where particles can stick to the outer surface rather than passing through.
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Indeed, when Orion disappears below the western horizon during spring evenings, the Scorpion is poking his head up in the southeast.
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Kansas City isn't much of a pedestrian city, but now, blue and green specks of fans dot the sidewalks, like wildflowers poking through a crack in the pavement.
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Schoenaerts menacingly grins his way through the movie, with appealingly bulging eyes.
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Tiny bulging eyes form long before the animal resembles a shark at all and its future face exists only as clusters of migrating cells, slowly organizing themselves into the structures that will eventually become jaws, cartilage and sensory organs.
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“Pooching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pooching. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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