as in snake
a limbless reptile with a long body
a viper sliding silently through the field
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Recent Examples of viper
Kids can build three different toys — an astronaut figure, a futuristic space dog, and a space viper jet with a seat for a minifigure to fly it.
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Rachel Trujillo, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025
Unhappily, this budding romance is interrupted when Arnold’s tracked down by the TV series viper-like host (Richard Dawson).
—Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 13 Nov. 2025
On one occasion, a blunt-nosed viper misjudged the distance to its prey.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
First-time screenwriter Nora Garrett assembles a viper’s nest of academics and one star student, but no one is likable.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
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Rachel Trujillo, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025
Unhappily, this budding romance is interrupted when Arnold’s tracked down by the TV series viper-like host (Richard Dawson).
—Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 13 Nov. 2025
On one occasion, a blunt-nosed viper misjudged the distance to its prey.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
First-time screenwriter Nora Garrett assembles a viper’s nest of academics and one star student, but no one is likable.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for viper
Noun
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And when Sky and Virginia were playing in a backyard sandpit one day, her little brother tugged on her T-shirt, pointing toward a snake.—
Laura Trujillo,
USA Today,
21 Feb. 2026
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The Epic of Gilgamesh, composed about 4,000 years ago, follows a king who searches the world for a plant that can restore youth, only to lose the plant to a thieving snake.—
Will Gottsegen,
The Atlantic,
20 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Except every Eden contains a serpent, and this one’s viper is particularly venomous.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
19 Feb. 2026
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Laocoön and His Sons, an exquisite marble sculpture of the legendary Trojan priest writhing in agony as he’s attacked by sea-serpents, was first unearthed in the early sixteenth-century, the only missing piece his right arm.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Viper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/viper. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.
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