copperhead

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Recent Examples of copperhead Most people get bitten by copperheads, Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency spokesperson Barry Cross told The Tennessean. Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 18 Sep. 2025 However, once his guardian arrived at the day care center, the information they were told was allegedly changed, as it was revealed that the boy had been bitten by a copperhead snake. Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025 The other venomous snake in Connecticut is the copperhead. Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2025 Note that all pit vipers — cottonmouths, copperheads and rattlesnakes — require the same antivenom, and most hospitals have a good supply on hand. Brandi D. Addison, Austin American Statesman, 31 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for copperhead
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Noun
  • 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
  • The Arizona ridge-nosed rattlesnake is even the official state reptile.
    Alexandra Hardle, AZCentral.com, 24 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Herrington collectively calls them cobra kids—the cobra is a BUSAR symbol.
    Paige Williams, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The Cape coral cobra (Aspidelaps lubricus) and the forest cobra (Naja melanoleuca), act in a more stealthy fashion.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Curiously, 1890 is also the model number that’s surfaced for a moccasin-sneaker hybrid from New Balance that’s yet to be released.
    Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 20 Jan. 2026
  • This contemporary take on a ballet shoe is easy to incorporate into your everyday rotation, while the moccasin-style toe adds even more visual interest to an already stunning shoe without overpowering the look.
    Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • River, tree, sorry, adder, stink, future, plughole.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Among the elapids are cobras, and in Australia death adders and tiger snakes.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But the Fenty Beauty mogul has proven herself animal print agnostic, with a particular penchant for snake—those Amina Muaddi python print boots are the hardest working shoe in her wardrobe.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 21 Jan. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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“Copperhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/copperhead. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.

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