nonvenomous

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Recent Examples of nonvenomous Following the presentation, participants can meet one of the center’s native, nonvenomous snake ambassadors. Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2025 Following the presentation, participants can meet one of the center’s native, nonvenomous snake ambassadors. Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2025 The large nonvenomous constrictor captures its prey by ambushing it before coiling around it. Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2024 The snake species is nonvenomous but does make a rattling sound when threatened. Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for nonvenomous
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonvenomous
Adjective
  • Advocates say there are ways around the issue by carefully sourcing nonpoisonous trees that are grown organically and not sprayed with fire retardant.
    Charles Passy, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2020
  • This will give them a chance to exercise this innate behavior with a safe source of nonpoisonous plant life.
    David Shultz, Science | AAAS, 8 Aug. 2019
Adjective
  • Yet in 2023, USDA’s Wildlife Services devoted less than 1% of its $286-million budget to nonlethal efforts.
    Peter Kareiva, Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2025
  • Multiple journalists have been shot with nonlethal rounds by law enforcement while reporting on protests—some of which escalated to riots—in Los Angeles over President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in the city.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 June 2025
Adjective
  • In essence, adaptogens are plants that are nontoxic at regular doses and can help your body return to homeostasis, its natural state of equilibrium.
    JP Shaffer, Kansas City Star, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The unit can be paired with Off the Deck’s nontoxic, biodegradable balls and FunAir’s inflatable golf nets.
    Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 10 June 2025
Adjective
  • More changes - including budget cuts - are anticipated in an ongoing reorganization effort that aims to remove noninfectious diseases from the CDC's responsibilities.
    Pien Huang, NPR, 29 July 2025
  • However, several types of infectious and noninfectious meningitis don’t spread from person to person.
    Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 18 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Homicide and nonfatal shooting totals fell again in 2023, but the city was roiled by robbery and carjacking crews responsible for an overall uptick in violence.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The report shows that healthcare workers face a disproportionately high risk of workplace violence, accounting for 73% of all nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses due to violence.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • In the chemical and materials industries, quantum computing could inform the design of more efficient batteries for electric cars and noncorrosive elements for ships.
    Charina Chou, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
  • In the chemical and materials industries, quantum computing could inform the design of more efficient batteries for electric cars and noncorrosive elements for ships.
    Charina Chou, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Using portable X-ray fluorescence, a nondestructive way to identify geochemical fingerprints, the researchers confirmed that the Mexicas were partial to a particular green and golden obsidian to produce items for rituals.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 16 May 2025
  • The study highlights how important nondestructive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry has become to archaeology, said John Millhauser, associate professor of sociology and anthropology at North Carolina State University.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 16 May 2025

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“Nonvenomous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonvenomous. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.

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