sea monster
noun
plural sea monsters
: a mythical creature of usually immense size that lives underwater and is traditionally regarded as a threat to ships and mariners
All readers of Yeats will need this book; when they open it they will feel a surprise like that experienced by St. Brendan the Navigator and his crew when they disembarked upon an island that turned out to be the back of a dormant sea monster.—
Seamus Heaney
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Nicknamed Hell’s Aquarium for the number of carnivorous sea monsters that inhabited this swath of sea, Deinosuchus lived along with a number of toothy beasts.
—Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2024
Advertisement Since the 1500s, sailors have told of sea monsters as long as their ships, and have even drafted maps that warned of areas in the ocean where such creatures resided.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
In fact, this exact effect is part of the reason that so many Soviet-style autocrats—the kind Trump so admires— eventually fail: governments that run on political subservience get dragged down by the Peter Principle, like a sea monster sucking its victim into the icy depths.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
But said judgment, quite troublingly, also seems to involve some kind of hungry sea monster.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
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Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2024
Advertisement Since the 1500s, sailors have told of sea monsters as long as their ships, and have even drafted maps that warned of areas in the ocean where such creatures resided.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
In fact, this exact effect is part of the reason that so many Soviet-style autocrats—the kind Trump so admires— eventually fail: governments that run on political subservience get dragged down by the Peter Principle, like a sea monster sucking its victim into the icy depths.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
But said judgment, quite troublingly, also seems to involve some kind of hungry sea monster.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
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“Sea monster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sea%20monster. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.
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