appendage
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Synonyms for appendage
Synonyms
accessory (also accessary), accoutrement (or accouterment), adapter (also adaptor), add-on, adjunct, appliance, attachment, option
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Pressed to his eye and pointed to the heavens, the high-tech gadget became an extra appendage. — Joan Niesen, SI.com, "The Insatiable Curiosity of Jonathan Taylor Drives His Relentless Dominance," 6 Sep. 2019 Beneath the upbeat tone and staccato sentences is a picture very like the old-fashioned Marxist vision of man under capitalism: an appendage of the machine. — Richard Cooke, The New Republic, "The conservative commentariatâs love affair with nootropics," 3 Sep. 2019 With its florid flora and prehistoric fauna, its end-of-the-road otherness, its castles literally built on sand, this flat appendage dangling from the southeast corner of the continental U.S. makes a fine backdrop for all kinds of craziness. — Los Angeles Times, "âFlorida Manâ is so over. On TV, Florida women are having their day," 23 Aug. 2019 Often the bites that sharks take there are exploratory and happen when a shark mistakes an appendage for a school of fish, Naylor says. — Colleen Cronin, PEOPLE.com, "Here's a Map of All the Shark Attacks in the U.S. This Year," 9 Aug. 2019 One of the painters central to this artistic resurgence is Galal, who says art wasnât just an appendage of the uprising but was at the heart of it. — Abdi Latif Dahir, Quartz Africa, "Sudanâs street protests have inspired another revolutionâin art," 12 July 2019 No other birdâliving or extinctâsports such an appendage. — Sabine Galvis, Science | AAAS, "This ancient bird sported a ginormous toe," 11 July 2019 To go from being a stationary polyp to a floating medusa is almost akin to humans evolving the ability to swim through the air and capture birds with springy, netlike appendages. — Quanta Magazine, "Jellyfish Genome Hints That Complexity Isnât Genetically Complex," 8 Jan. 2019 Just then, as her body appears ready to topple forward, a mechanical appendage uncoils from beneath her dress and stiffens behind her like a wooden plank, steadying her from a fall. — courant.com, "Japanese researchers want to give your grandma a robotic monkey tail," 21 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'appendage.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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