breaching
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- A spectacular behavior of whales, particularly Sperm Whales, where they leap almost entirely out of the water, described as an act of defiance by Moby Dick.
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- act of defiance
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- whale behavior
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- visible from seven miles
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- Moby Dick bodily burst into view! For not by any calm and indolent spoutings; not by the peaceable gush of that mystic fountain in his head, did the White Whale now reveal his vicinity; but by the far more wondrous phenomenon of breaching.
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- 2026-03-02T00:06:58.449Z
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