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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All fatalities associated with this species have occurred when swimmers or divers have casually picked up and handled the octopus .
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And even a non- biology major could tell the rubbery item with the tentacles was obviously related to an octopus .
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It happened to be an octopus a fisherman had brought Tillman two or three days ago.
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Mitchell ruminated on the hideous milky flesh, thinking, I am going to eat that octopus .
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The octopus body is made from a tubular cake, achieved by baking cake mixture in an empty food can.
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This is the pattern of the squid and octopus eye as well as of the artificial mechanical one built by man, the camera.
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Through the shimmer he saw the huge octopus eyes of the juggernaut grow dimmer.
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To make this easier, the octopus secretes an enzyme that helps to digest the tissue and loosen it from the shell.