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The mantas are still spotted in May and October, but in fewer numbers.
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Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2025
Also in the Tuamotus, on the atoll of Tikehau, divers head out to Tuheiava Pass with Tikehau Diving for regular sightings of mantas at a cleaning station (pinnacles that draw large fish to have their gills, teeth, and carapaces cleaned by smaller ones).
—Terry Ward, AFAR Media, 11 Sep. 2025
From freezer reshuffling to roadside inspections mid-journey to the Smithsonian, the manta’s journey to formal recognition was as dramatic as the discovery itself.
—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
This work led to an entire field of manta research that tracks over a thousand individual mantas at these islands.
—Kathleen Rellihan, Outside Online, 8 June 2025
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Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2025
Also in the Tuamotus, on the atoll of Tikehau, divers head out to Tuheiava Pass with Tikehau Diving for regular sightings of mantas at a cleaning station (pinnacles that draw large fish to have their gills, teeth, and carapaces cleaned by smaller ones).
—Terry Ward, AFAR Media, 11 Sep. 2025
From freezer reshuffling to roadside inspections mid-journey to the Smithsonian, the manta’s journey to formal recognition was as dramatic as the discovery itself.
—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
This work led to an entire field of manta research that tracks over a thousand individual mantas at these islands.
—Kathleen Rellihan, Outside Online, 8 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for manta
ray
Noun
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In our HandBrake video transcoding test, the two CPUs were close enough to call it a tie, while the benchmark for the ray-tracing 3D image generator POV-Ray showed the Core Ultra 9 285K to be non-trivially faster.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
25 Oct. 2025
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The sun’s rays will warm the soil, and the cloth will hold in that radiant heat overnight.—
Neil Sperry,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Manta.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manta. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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