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Recent Examples of adder
And after that gets done, the next step is concatenating them to create a full adder, because that is the fundamental computing logic component.
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Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Jan. 2026
River, tree, sorry, adder, stink, future, plughole.
—Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
Among the elapids are cobras, and in Australia death adders and tiger snakes.
—New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2025
Klaus Birch Birch arrived at the scene and found the adder examining the young hare and biting its left hind leg.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 July 2025
See it On Sylt Island in northern Germany, a resident’s photograph confirmed the presence of a Vipera berus, also known as the common European adder.
—Stories By Real-Time News Team, With Ai Summarization, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2025
The death adder’s plight illustrates another important point: In a 2013 review of the relevant scientific literature to date, Robertson and his colleagues concluded that exotic species are the single largest cause of evolutionary traps.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2024
This attitude poses a threat to Europe’s adder populations, already on the decline because of habitat destruction.
—Byphie Jacobs, science.org, 20 Sep. 2024
Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Jan. 2026
River, tree, sorry, adder, stink, future, plughole.
—Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
Among the elapids are cobras, and in Australia death adders and tiger snakes.
—New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2025
Klaus Birch Birch arrived at the scene and found the adder examining the young hare and biting its left hind leg.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 July 2025
See it On Sylt Island in northern Germany, a resident’s photograph confirmed the presence of a Vipera berus, also known as the common European adder.
—Stories By Real-Time News Team, With Ai Summarization, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2025
The death adder’s plight illustrates another important point: In a 2013 review of the relevant scientific literature to date, Robertson and his colleagues concluded that exotic species are the single largest cause of evolutionary traps.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2024
This attitude poses a threat to Europe’s adder populations, already on the decline because of habitat destruction.
—Byphie Jacobs, science.org, 20 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for adder
Noun
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Then, as legend holds, the queen let a poisonous asp bite her, choosing death with Antony over life under Octavian’s rule.—
Serena Turner,
Vanity Fair,
16 Feb. 2026
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Rather than allowing herself to be captured by the Romans, legend has it that Cleopatra let a poisonous asp bite her in Alexandria, according to the documentary.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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His enthusiasm feels potent enough to charm a rattlesnake.—
Michael Adno,
Rolling Stone,
3 Mar. 2026
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Rattlesnake Saloon Tuscumbia During the construction of this one-of-a-kind bar, restaurant, and music venue, workers unearthed a rattlesnake den, mother and twelve babies included, and the name wrote itself.—
Nicole Letts,
Southern Living,
28 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Venomous snakes—including the timber rattlesnake, the copperhead, and the cottonmouth—all make this area their home.—
Erika Ebsworth-Goold,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Mar. 2026
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Wider portions of the shape can be seen on either side while more narrow portions cross the copperhead’s back and tailbone, experts say.—
Tanasia Kenney,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The beef is tender with bits of fat — the kind of fat that renders and drips on the glowing coals causing the grill to hiss like an agitated cobra.—
Andre James,
Charlotte Observer,
25 Feb. 2026
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Disrupt it with, say, a cobra’s strike, and your diaphragm will stop working properly, as will your breath.—
Sally Jenkins,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The choreography featured an albino Burmese python casually draped over Spears during the live performance.—
Sara Vallone
March 5,
Miami Herald,
5 Mar. 2026
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This was the first day the family had gone out together on an official python hunt.—
Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
5 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The artist is based out of her studio in East Sooke, located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, where Gentry creates all of her moccasin styles by hand.—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
5 Mar. 2026
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Orphaned at five, Lewis was raised by maternal aunts who profoundly inspired her as an artist, teaching her how to work with birch bark and porcupine quills, craft textiles and moccasins, and use a range of materials to tell stories.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
13 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The snake was identified as a carpet python, a non-venomous constrictor commonly found in Australia’s coastal regions.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
18 Jan. 2026
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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
Noun
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The classic bikini fairing harks back to the original café racer's front end, surrounding a pair of awfully low-slung clip-on handlebars and dual electronic clocks behind a compact visor.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
6 Mar. 2026
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Pink and the former pro motocross racer have been married since 2006.—
Hannah Malach,
InStyle,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Adder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adder. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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