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Recent Examples of cobra
Excavations at the site have uncovered temples, elite residences, and a shrine to Wadjet, the cobra goddess of Lower Egypt.
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Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
Nearly three years after the La Jolla Shores Association first approved design elements for new streetlights in the area, a total of 37 lights with new circuits were installed — 31 acorn-style post-top decorative streetlights and six cobra-head streetlights that extend from the pole.
—Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2025
The forest cobra is the largest true cobra species in Africa, and can grow up to 10 feet long in the wild, according to iNaturalist.
—Mitchell Willetts, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
Gabriella Comi witnessed a dramatic stand-off between a lion and a cobra.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
Nearly three years after the La Jolla Shores Association first approved design elements for new streetlights in the area, a total of 37 lights with new circuits were installed — 31 acorn-style post-top decorative streetlights and six cobra-head streetlights that extend from the pole.
—Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2025
The forest cobra is the largest true cobra species in Africa, and can grow up to 10 feet long in the wild, according to iNaturalist.
—Mitchell Willetts, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
Gabriella Comi witnessed a dramatic stand-off between a lion and a cobra.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cobra
Noun
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Other rattlesnakes found as far north as Denton County include the timber rattlesnake, pygmy rattlesnake and massasauga rattlesnake, Pandelis said.—
Miriam Fauzia,
Dallas Morning News,
14 Jan. 2026
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The Arizona ridge-nosed rattlesnake is even the official state reptile.—
Alexandra Hardle,
AZCentral.com,
24 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The carpet python is one of the most commonly sighted snakes in Queensland, according to the Snake Rescue Sunshine Coast (SRSC).—
Phil Boucher,
PEOPLE,
16 Jan. 2026
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Practical side zippers with gold hardware closed the shaft and left the python upper uninterrupted through the front and sides.—
Maggie Clancy,
Footwear News,
10 Jan. 2026
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The show featured other Minter heroes, including Jane Fonda giving the finger and two large-scale odalisques: Padma Lakshmi, in a bra and a boa, eating oranges, and Lizzo, in a corset, holding an iPhone.—
Dana Goodyear,
New Yorker,
8 Dec. 2025
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At the New York premiere of her upcoming film, , Sweeney arrived alongside co-star Amanda Seyfried wearing a low-cut, glitzy silver Miu Miu floor-length gown, finished with a dramatic feather boa.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Dec. 2025
Noun
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For example, an adult black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis), one of the planet’s deadliest elapids, regularly grows upwards of 10 feet long.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
29 Oct. 2025
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Powell County paramedic Eddie Barnes and one of his team members were called to the Kentucky Reptile Zoo in May after the zoo’s co-director, James Harrison, was bitten by a poisonous mamba snake, local news outlet LEX 18 reported.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
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Burmese pythons are one of the state’s most notorious invasive species, and the FWC has implemented several efforts to remove the large nonvenomous constrictors from our ecosystem — primarily by humanely killing them.—
NBC South Florida,
NBC news,
14 Aug. 2025
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Boa constrictors can reach up to 13 feet as adults.—
Mike Stunson,
Kansas City Star,
27 May 2025
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Scientists have captured high-speed video of venomous snake strikes, including this dramatic footage of a copperhead.—
Evan Moore,
Charlotte Observer,
28 Oct. 2025
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As the leaves turn to shades of orange and brown, a copperhead snake starts to blend perfectly into its habitat.—
Ella Gonzales,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 Sep. 2025
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British explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett, who wandered the Amazon for 22 years at the beginning of the 20th century before vanishing without a trace, wrote that the breath of the anaconda stupefied its prey.—
Stanley Stewart,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Jan. 2026
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In a clip of Pole to Pole with Will Smith, obtained by LiveScience, the 57-year-old actor could be seen on a boat going down a river in Ecuador with venom expert Bryan Fry, expedition leader Carla Perez and Indigenous Waorani guides when the group notices a gigantic anaconda on the banks.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
PEOPLE,
10 Jan. 2026
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That was when, along the margins of the Juma, the bushmaster snapped into view.—
Terrence McCoy,
Washington Post,
8 Nov. 2023
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Ripa claimed to be the first herpetologist in the world to watch venomous bushmasters mate....and was bitten by them at least seven times in his life.—
Mark Price,
charlotteobserver,
15 May 2017
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“Cobra.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cobra. Accessed 21 Jan. 2026.
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