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protrudes

verb

present tense third-person singular of protrude

as in pokes

to extend outward beyond a usual point we spotted the kitten's tail protruding from beneath the dresser

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Recent Examples of protrudes Ping Ping, the male, has dark black circles around his eyes, while Fu Shuang, the female, has a forehead that protrudes a bit, according to the Xinhua News Agency. — ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026 Other animals on-site include a stable full of horses and Cowboy the tortoise, who is about the size of a lawnmower and whose head protrudes from what looks like a Venus flytrap made of bone. — Emma Madden, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026 These are more likely to cause painless rectal bleeding or tissue that protrudes during a bowel movement. — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 29 Apr. 2026 Part of it protrudes from the exterior, with natural airflow helping keep the food inside chilled. — Adam Williams march 29, New Atlas, 29 Mar. 2026 The lone camera is a single round lens that protrudes from the upper-left corner of the rear panel. — Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 9 Mar. 2026 The other two types are subserosal (which protrudes on the outside of the uterus) and intramural (which grow within the muscle layer). — Beth Krietsch, SELF, 2 Mar. 2026 Baleen is a specialized type of bone that protrudes from the jaws like teeth and is used to filter small critters from the ocean water to feed. — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2025

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And yet there’s this piece in the policy which pokes its head [and forces them to find a surrogate in Texas].

— Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 2 Oct. 2026
The International Kazoo Championship pokes a little fun at the rigidity of the main stage.

— David Alm, Longreads, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of pokes

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What makes the latter leap more treacherous is a rock ledge that juts out about 10 to 15 feet from the cliffs.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
There are also the pristine stretches of sand around Cape Peninsula, a rocky mountain that juts into the sea, including a large colony of African penguins on Boulders Beach, the surfers’ paradise of Llandudno, and nudist-friendly Sandy Bay.

— Paul Jebara, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Aug. 2026

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But when an event swells to the size of a city — the New York City Marathon had nearly 60,000 finishers last year — climate risk is no longer solely a personal matter.

— Vibhu Krishna, STAT, 2 Oct. 2026
There is an art to stylizing a position of interrogation in excess of its biomechanics, an art to how lockstep beats a cadence while a unit swells into an enveloping arc.

— Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

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