vipers

plural of viper

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Recent Examples of vipers For example, vipers use their fangs to inject venom into their target. Philip Anderson, The Conversation, 8 July 2026 The poison of vipers is on their lips—and yet stop. Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026 Dangerous reptiles like cobras, mambas, vipers, anacondas and rattlesnakes are all banned from private ownership. Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2026 The animal enthusiast has since fished vipers from beneath houses, underneath baby cribs, the inside of dry wall, the back of a refrigerator, a fire department, a Safeway and scores of other spots. Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2026 Other shipments sent by Lin included alligator lizards, venomous green tree vipers and palm pit vipers, all protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025 Now, young people are buying venomous pet vipers. Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 16 Dec. 2025 The vipers closed their jaws to inject the venom only when their fangs were comfortably in place. Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025 Splinter after splinter flopping onto the stone threshold, tsss, tsss, hissing like a nest of vipers. Zuzana Říhová, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vipers
Noun
  • Those serpents include six rattlesnake species and non-rattlers, such as the Copperhead, Water Moccasin (or Cottonmouth) and Eastern Coral snakes.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • At the end of the experience, a line snakes to the Nickelodeon slime station.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 2026
  • The shots are busy with equipment—boom mikes, bulb-flashes, wires and cables dripping like innards or snakes, the hungry Cyclopean eye of a mounted camera.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 24 July 2026

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“Vipers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vipers. Accessed 30 Jul. 2026.

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