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Recent Examples of rattlesnake
With golden eyes, velvet voice and smooth gait, Pierre is like a puma prowling across the screen, but ultimately his character’s temperament is much more like a rattlesnake — coiled and ready to strike when threatened.
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Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
Snow, rain, thunder, lighting and rattlesnakes were common sights in the remote mountains where the limited series was filmed.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
Not a single one of the 11 rattlesnakes climbed the wall, video shows.
—Mark Price, Miami Herald, 3 Jan. 2025
Today, its inhabitants are animals, including mountain lions, black bears, bobcats, peregrine falcons and western rattlesnakes.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
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Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
Snow, rain, thunder, lighting and rattlesnakes were common sights in the remote mountains where the limited series was filmed.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
Not a single one of the 11 rattlesnakes climbed the wall, video shows.
—Mark Price, Miami Herald, 3 Jan. 2025
Today, its inhabitants are animals, including mountain lions, black bears, bobcats, peregrine falcons and western rattlesnakes.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rattlesnake
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Last year, Musgraves shared a series of Instagram Story posts recounting a run-in that Pepper had with a copperhead snake.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
28 Feb. 2025
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Nightmare fuel:Can Texas' venomous snakes, like rattlers and copperheads, climb trees?—
Ryan Maxin,
Austin American-Statesman,
5 June 2024
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Poses like cat-cow and half lord of the fishes help with mobility in the spine, while poses like cobra and bridge work to strengthen the muscles in the back and core.—
Cory Martin,
Verywell Health,
3 Feb. 2025
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In November, a man from Stellenbosch, South Africa, returned home to find a cape cobra coiled under a pillow on his bed.—
Kelli Bender,
People.com,
2 Jan. 2025
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Everyone is wearing period shoes, and with the sheer number of Indigenous characters onscreen, where are all those moccasins coming from?—
Mark Peikert,
IndieWire,
28 Jan. 2025
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The costume department built more than 1,300 garments and hundreds of pairs of moccasins.—
Alexis Soloski,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 2025
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Loading your audio article A Georgia man who blew up a woman’s home and planned to sic a python on her child will spend 20 years in federal prison.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
24 Feb. 2025
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The largest python captured measured more than 19 feet long.—
Alan Clemons,
Outdoor Life,
20 Feb. 2025
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Partygoers dressed up for the theme with feather boas and colorful clothes to match Swift's different albums, with friendship bracelets and light-up bracelets being scattered on the table of the cozy venue; all nods to the Eras Tour.—
Becca Longmire,
People.com,
19 Dec. 2024
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Partygoers dressed up for the theme with feather boas and colorful clothes to go with her different albums.—
Gil Macias,
People.com,
19 Dec. 2024
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One of several constrictors known to exist in the ‘glades, the python has decimated native species including rabbits, raccoons, opossums, and birds.—
Alan Clemons,
Outdoor Life,
20 Feb. 2025
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Boa constrictor hitches ride on Arizona man's car An Arizona driver was shocked to find a huge snake hanging underneath his vehicle in November.—
Shelby Slade,
The Arizona Republic,
27 Dec. 2024
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The death adder’s plight illustrates another important point: In a 2013 review of the relevant scientific literature to date, Robertson and his colleagues concluded that exotic species are the single largest cause of evolutionary traps.—
Cody Cottier,
Discover Magazine,
30 Sep. 2024
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This attitude poses a threat to Europe’s adder populations, already on the decline because of habitat destruction.—
ByPhie Jacobs,
science.org,
20 Sep. 2024
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The design started with the black mamba (the snake).—
Chuck Schilken,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Jan. 2025
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Sub-Saharan Africa is home to dozens of snake species, but the most deadly and feared are the puff adder, cobra and black mamba.—
Brian Otieno,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2025
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“Rattlesnake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rattlesnake. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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