the supreme personification of evil often represented as the ruler of hell
some people believe that Satan can successfully tempt almost anyone with lies and flattery
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Recent Examples of SatanThe 808s feel like drowning in a volcano, my skin peeling off as the visage of Satan reveals itself.—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 4 June 2025 The opening moments cement its tonal dissonance as, with a twang of Daniel Kowalski’s spare, uneasy score, a brief prologue with fire, a flailing figure and mutterings about Satan snaps to a far more banal view of an empty street lined with dim, shuttered houses under a low, gray sky.—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 30 May 2025 Also in the family name is Mistress Isabelle Brooks, Drag Race’s sequined Satan with a smile.—Chris Feil, Vulture, 23 May 2025 By then Twain had several reasons to believe that both his favor toward Satan and Olivia’s favor toward God were unreciprocated.—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for Satan
Though the leopard-like pattern is extremely rare, snake aficionados do occasionally find wild serpents with mutations.
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Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
16 May 2025
Walking into the library, your first point of contact is with the intricate wooden carving of Coatlicue, the Aztec earth goddess and mother of the gods, who has twin serpents for a head and is a symbol of creation and destruction.
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