as in projection
a part that sticks out from the general mass of something
the bizarrely shaped protrusions of a coral reef
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Recent Examples of protrusion
The strapless champagne mermaid gown was classic Old Hollywood glamour, but its exaggerated blade-like protrusion from the bust served as a reminder to the body horror.
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Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 1 Mar. 2025
The domed protrusions act like pixels, creating a ghost pattern of windows on the façade.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 5 Mar. 2025
The reason whooping cough can bring on such a gnarly, well, cough in the first place is because of how B. pertussis wreaks havoc: These bugs latch on to the cilia (a.k.a. tiny hairlike protrusions) on cells in your respiratory tract and ooze toxins, triggering inflammation and swelling.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 13 Feb. 2025
Under such low pressure, the electric field causes positive ions generated from the residual gas in a tube to accelerate and bombard the cathode, creating sharp, nanometer-scale protrusions, which degrade and, ultimately, destroy it.
—Jin-Woo Han, IEEE Spectrum, 23 June 2014
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Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 1 Mar. 2025
The domed protrusions act like pixels, creating a ghost pattern of windows on the façade.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 5 Mar. 2025
The reason whooping cough can bring on such a gnarly, well, cough in the first place is because of how B. pertussis wreaks havoc: These bugs latch on to the cilia (a.k.a. tiny hairlike protrusions) on cells in your respiratory tract and ooze toxins, triggering inflammation and swelling.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 13 Feb. 2025
Under such low pressure, the electric field causes positive ions generated from the residual gas in a tube to accelerate and bombard the cathode, creating sharp, nanometer-scale protrusions, which degrade and, ultimately, destroy it.
—Jin-Woo Han, IEEE Spectrum, 23 June 2014
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for protrusion
Noun
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Market projections confirm this: The NLP market is expected to grow from $18.9 billion in 2023 to $68.1 billion by 2028.—
Asad Khan,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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Is Sachiko merely a model for Etsuko to emulate, a phantom projection of what her future could be, or the older Etsuko’s distanced reflection of her past?—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
21 May 2025
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Violet-blue protuberances are surrounded by what look like thorns but are actually soft, if jagged, flower parts.—
Joshua Siskin,
Orange County Register,
14 Mar. 2025
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By flying drones over a remote stretch of the Canadian Arctic, scientists were able to capture unique footage of narwhals, shedding light on the function of their famed protuberances, according to a study published Feb. 27 in Frontiers in Marine Science.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
4 Mar. 2025
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Aurora is typically seen in polar regions at around latitudes of 70 degrees north and south, but during strong geomagnetic conditions the auroral oval can bulge, with displays then seen as far as 40 degrees north and south.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2025
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Coping with Mood Swings and Anxiety But can these drugs really help shrink the hormonal belly bulge?—
Lauryn Higgins,
Flow Space,
15 May 2025
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On occasion an ethical will is part of the regular will and might even be integrated to the point that there isn’t a clear separation between the legally binding sections and the ethical will portions.—
Bob Carlson,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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Spanx Get Moving Shelf Tank Matching sweat sets aren’t the only loungewear essentials hiding in Spanx’s sale section right now: There’s plenty of activewear to be found, too.—
Averi Baudler,
People.com,
22 May 2025
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For example, Palladio’s Church of the Redentore, built in Venice in 1577, features minaret-like towers flanking a large dome.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
24 May 2025
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He couch surfed for a while, briefly joined a cult on a ranch, then moved in with a group that lived in a geodesic dome in the mountains.—
Andy Greenberg,
Wired News,
22 May 2025
Noun
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Line bottom and sides of pan with parchment paper, leaving a 2-inch overhang on all sides; set aside.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
11 May 2025
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The fish was spotted out in the open as opposed to inside a cave or under an overhang, which have long been considered hiding spots for the species, researchers said.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
7 May 2025
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When the loss function has a convenient mathematical property called convexity, this procedure is guaranteed to find the optimal solution.—
Zachary C. Lipton,
IEEE Spectrum,
26 Jan. 2016
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Even more interesting is the fact that Noctua is issuing three variants of the cooler with variations in the convexity of the cold plate: a normal, a high-convexity, and a low-convexity model.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
10 June 2024
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Both renditions incorporated portions of the original Addams Family theme song.—
Walden Green,
Pitchfork,
1 June 2025
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Musk has also sought to operate Starlink, his satellite-internet company, in South Africa, but has balked at a law requiring foreign tech firms to sell a portion of their local subsidiaries to shareholders who are Black or historically disadvantaged.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
1 June 2025
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“Protrusion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/protrusion. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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