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Recent Examples of terrarium
The store held raffles where people could win a private shopping experience, free entry to a terrarium plant class, and Monstera’s Books gift cards.
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Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 6 Dec. 2025
Poppy and Lilah spend multiple hours together daily, however Smtih keeps the snake in her terrarium in the days after she’s eaten.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Recently, Autumn entered the room in her home, which contains Matilda's heated habitat, and found Tsunami casually sitting in the middle of the lizard's terrarium.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
One female Hunan mountain snake was pregnant and temporarily kept in a laboratory terrarium, the study said.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2025
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Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 6 Dec. 2025
Poppy and Lilah spend multiple hours together daily, however Smtih keeps the snake in her terrarium in the days after she’s eaten.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Recently, Autumn entered the room in her home, which contains Matilda's heated habitat, and found Tsunami casually sitting in the middle of the lizard's terrarium.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
One female Hunan mountain snake was pregnant and temporarily kept in a laboratory terrarium, the study said.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for terrarium
Noun
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One of his interests is fishing, for example, so the children went on a field trip to an aquarium.—
Kate Armanini,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Feb. 2026
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But then there's the famous shark aquarium and a massive sandy beach.—
Andrea Bennett,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Feb. 2026
Noun
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On one side stood a dozen or so cages occupied by snow-white rats.—
Dhruv Khullar,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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That cage, the magical but also eerie Thrushcross Grange, is a sight to behold—an epic, retina-searing, sometimes repulsive, consistently jaw-dropping palace, meticulously constructed by production designer Suzie Davies.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Terrarium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/terrarium. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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