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In the Gawler Ranges National Park in southern Australia, ecologist Tali Moyle encountered a rare southwestern carpet python, known as Morelia imbricata.
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Real-Time News Team, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
Staff said the python likely escaped its home and asked for help finding the snake’s owner.
—Saleen Martin, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
Photos from the organization show the python safely coiled on a white towel after it had been brought in.
—Jillian Frankel, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
Though not native to the Gulf of Mexico, the pythons have adapted, and will sometimes strangle an offshore drilling rig in their powerful coils.
—Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
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Real-Time News Team, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
Staff said the python likely escaped its home and asked for help finding the snake’s owner.
—Saleen Martin, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
Photos from the organization show the python safely coiled on a white towel after it had been brought in.
—Jillian Frankel, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
Though not native to the Gulf of Mexico, the pythons have adapted, and will sometimes strangle an offshore drilling rig in their powerful coils.
—Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for python
Noun
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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
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Cleopatra was imprisoned in her palace, and legend has it that an ally brought her a basket of figs, and hidden within was the cobra that gave the Egyptian queen that fatal bite.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
24 Sep. 2025
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Think catfish bigger than humans, caimans, fish that can jump out of the water to eat bugs, and, of course, anacondas.—
Jeri Clausing,
AFAR Media,
21 Oct. 2025
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For one, the Lidia thong design was rendered with in an anaconda print in a bold tangerine hue, but other versions played with cork or raffia elements, in addition to leather.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
24 Sep. 2025
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No trail, just rock after rock, a phantom rattlesnake curled in every crevice.—
Rowan Jacobsen,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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Fans can get up close to the rams, dinosaur and rattlesnake and majestic as well as two new sculptures that will go to Borrego Springs in November.—
Abby Hamblin,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Oct. 2025
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In 2022, Ryan Seacrest decided to do Halloween as the man of the moment, Styles — pink boa and all.—
Diana Pearl,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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Noam Galai / Getty Images for MTV Details of Sabrina Carpenter's boa and custom rings.—
Justine Goode,
NBC news,
7 Sep. 2025
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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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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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Birkenstock, Uggs, and moccasins are just a few of the quintessential designs that rank for best slippers.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
3 Nov. 2025
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One is a part-moccasin, part-sneaker Gallery Shoe that gets its inspiration from the sneaker loafer trend.—
Vicki M. Young,
Footwear News,
30 Oct. 2025
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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
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Among the caterpillars Walker has studied are puss, or asp, caterpillars, whose stings can be excruciating.—
Ivan Amato,
Scientific American,
30 Jan. 2025
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In the last century, the giant garter snake’s population has declined by more than 90%, the governor’s announcement declared.—
Kate Wolffe,
Sacbee.com,
13 Oct. 2025
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Senate Bill 765, sponsored by GOP Senator Roger Niell, names the giant garter snake () as the state snake.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Python.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/python. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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