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any of several extremely large rays a manta glided along the sea bottom

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Recent Examples of manta Rogen and John Cena play the duo of warthog Bebop and rhino Rocksteady, Rose Byrne is toothy Australian gator Leatherhead, Post Malone cameos as silky-singing manta Ray Fillet and Paul Rudd is the scene-stealing Mondo Gecko. Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023 Just offshore, the warm waters near Espiritu Santo Island (a UNESCO World Heritage site) teem with playful sea lions, manta and mobula rays, giant squid, dolphins, and Baja’s most famous underwater resident: the whale shark. Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 22 May 2023 The wrappers for the manta dumplings, whether beef or a combination of beef and pumpkin, are fragile things, prone to split open to reveal their jumbled interiors. Tim Carman, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023 In 1874, Nampeyo was a shy 15-year-old who sometimes wore a traditional manta, a type of shawl. Kathleen Sharp For Propublica, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Apr. 2023 See all Example Sentences for manta 

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“Manta.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manta. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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