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Recent Examples of boa
Sweeney paired the gown with a feather boa and diamond earrings.
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Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 3 Dec. 2025
Our trip was a catwalk of silks, sequins, boas, stilettos, velvet loafers, and black ties.
—Erica Firpo, AFAR Media, 5 Nov. 2025
Black beauty editors donned fur boas and danced while swatching shimmer carnival-like pigments.
—Larry Stansbury, Essence, 26 Aug. 2025
Fortunately, saving Blomberg’s tree boa and its fellow forest dwellers isn’t just a matter of protecting what’s left: Jocotoco is also restoring degraded areas.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2025
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Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 3 Dec. 2025
Our trip was a catwalk of silks, sequins, boas, stilettos, velvet loafers, and black ties.
—Erica Firpo, AFAR Media, 5 Nov. 2025
Black beauty editors donned fur boas and danced while swatching shimmer carnival-like pigments.
—Larry Stansbury, Essence, 26 Aug. 2025
Fortunately, saving Blomberg’s tree boa and its fellow forest dwellers isn’t just a matter of protecting what’s left: Jocotoco is also restoring degraded areas.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boa
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 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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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
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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
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But things get real when an actual giant anaconda appears, turning their comically chaotic movie set into a deadly situation.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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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
Noun
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Nike executive Gentry Humphrey, who’s currently the vice president of Jordan footwear, likened the look to that of a snake — specifically the highly venomous black mamba.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
25 Feb. 2026
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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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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
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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
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