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Recent Examples of python
Teyana Taylor chose a spring 2026 runway look from the label, finished with over-the-knee purple python boots.
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Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 10 Jan. 2026
Somehow Bonet’s Burmese python got into one of the walls in the house.
—R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 9 Jan. 2026
Even one of the greatest ever to play this game, Joe Root, could not work out how to break free of the 36-year-old’s shackles here, failing to score a single run off him for 23 balls in a row before finally yielding to the python-like grip when missing one that homed in on his pads.
—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
On Monday, Kogo returned to the site and saw several python hunting trucks and even hunters on bicycles gathered at the pond.
—Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2026
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Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 10 Jan. 2026
Somehow Bonet’s Burmese python got into one of the walls in the house.
—R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 9 Jan. 2026
Even one of the greatest ever to play this game, Joe Root, could not work out how to break free of the 36-year-old’s shackles here, failing to score a single run off him for 23 balls in a row before finally yielding to the python-like grip when missing one that homed in on his pads.
—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
On Monday, Kogo returned to the site and saw several python hunting trucks and even hunters on bicycles gathered at the pond.
—Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for python
Noun
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Herrington collectively calls them cobra kids—the cobra is a BUSAR symbol.—
Paige Williams,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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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
Noun
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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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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
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The Arizona ridge-nosed rattlesnake is even the official state reptile.—
Alexandra Hardle,
AZCentral.com,
24 Nov. 2025
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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
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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
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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
Noun
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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
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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
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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
Noun
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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 4 Feb. 2026.
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