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cobra

[koh-bruh] / ˈkoʊ brə /


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Sometimes the pitch is flat as a pancake, other times it spits like a cobra.

From BBC Dec. 27, 2025

Carse produced a lifter to Usman Khawaja so venomous it could have been a spitting cobra.

From BBC Nov. 21, 2025

A cobra bites Chelsea and she’s whisked away to a hospital.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 2, 2025

When she and Dr. Tessler analyzed the leech’s movement, they identified that it made a curling motion similar to the move a cobra makes before it strikes.

From New York Times Jun. 20, 2024

A bull is like a silverback, noble, contained, calm like a cobra is calm.

From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate




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