moccasin
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Then with my own kids making their own memories, watching the peanut butter being made, choosing moccasins from the now-gone moccasin shop at the Dell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2024
Her team then checked this in a variety of snakes - dissecting a total of nine species including the carpet python, puff adder and Mexican moccasin.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2022
“He was kind of a grumpy snake, and everybody was going, ‘Omigod, omigod, it's a water moccasin, kill it!’” she recollects.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2022
He and his brother gave their father, who had been wiped out, $20,000 each from their trust funds to start a new business: importing shoes, in particular a moccasin, from Brazil.
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2022
The kid who suggests the Shoemakers in honor of the old moccasin factory is laughed out of the auditorium.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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Born on Montana’s Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Gladstone has worn tennis shoes, scuffed boots and fur-trimmed moccasins for publicity appearances, often with another accessory or pattern that recalls her Siksikaitsitapi and Nez Perce heritage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2024
In Vegas, she and Missi both wore moccasins made by an aunt.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 27, 2023
Mattel should have considered traditional pucker toe moccasins, instead of black shoes, and included symbols on the basket that Cherokees use to tell a story, she said.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
One pair of moccasins in the collection was taken by a U.S. soldier from the feet of a slain Lakota leader, the newspapers reported.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
But I did not do so, for I had always obeyed my mother— whose love for me was as certain as the firmness of the sacred earth beneath my moccasins.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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