as in manta rays
any of several extremely large rays
a sea devil glided along the ocean floor
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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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The researchers used ultrabright X-rays at the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan to understand how the structural changes improved ion transport.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
3 June 2026
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The raycaster works by sending out rays from the player’s position to detect the distance to the first wall the player can see in that line.—
Kyle Orland,
ArsTechnica,
2 June 2026
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“Sea devils.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sea%20devils. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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