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I’d grown up in suburban New Jersey, where the geography of the planet is hidden beneath a barnacled crust of 20th-century houses, highways, and shopping malls.
From Salon ● May 27, 2024
By the end of the twenty-first century, Miami became something else entirely: a popular diving spot where people could swim among sharks and barnacled SUVs and explore the wreckage of a great American city.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 17, 2017
That script, a series of rhymed couplets barnacled with topical quips, “was so impenetrably difficult,” she said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2017
He told me many tales of the islands: of barnacled, hard-drinking fishermen; hulking Nordic farmhands; and violent, evil seas.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2015
The whale dived down and Zheng grabbed its barnacled body as they plummeted into the depths, then everything went black again.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
